It has been announced: “The Silent Sleep Training Medical Didgeridoo has been proven in two medical studies at the University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland. The results of the first study were published in the renowned British Medical Journal and in 2017 the research team was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize.” Further info is available on […]
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Showcasing the Venturi Didgeridoo (new patent)
Dr. Charles Adams Eaton, who is an instructor at the University of New Mexico, has invented the “Venturi Didgeridoo” (or “Reverse Didgeridoo”) for which a US patent 8,466,361 was granted June 18, 2013. The new didgeridoo not only manages to produce much lower tones than would normally be expected for its length, it also converts […]
Didgerdoo players’ glottic activity – the lowdown
An Australian didgeridoo is a reed-less hollow conically shape wooden tubular wind instrument typically measuring up to 150 cm in length, with distal and proximal diameters ranging from 150 to 30 mm. But what, exactly, happens to someone’s glottis whilst they are playing a didgerdoo? One way of finding out is to make a video […]