The Didgeridoo – How To Make A Didgeridoo

You might want to try making your own didgeridoo if you’re on a tight budget, if you want an inexpensive practice instrument, or if you just have fun making things. Figure 6-1 shows three didgeridoos made by the author — made of plastic pipe, copper pipe, and bamboo.

You can easily make a didgeridoo of your own, tuned to any key you want, with a few basic hand-tools and some inexpensive materials. For example, you can make a plastic pipe didgeridoo in a couple of hours for a total materials cost of less than $10 (US#, and without any tools more complex than a hacksaw. By the way, if you scoff completely at the idea of playing a plastic pipe, the Bloodwood CD by Alan Dargin & Michael Atherton #see the Discography page) contains a track of Mr. Dargin doing some rather amazing things with a 2 meter (6 foot) length of plastic electrical conduit. This track clearly demonstrates the playability of plastic pipe and other non-traditional didgeridoos, although that probably wasn’t what Mr. Dargin specifically had in mind.

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