Smoking Didgeridoo
Spitted out by ehemplo on November 11th, 2008. Filed under: Art
No, he is not smoking a giant joint.
His name is Bruce Copley, a world-renowned musician-healer-educator, playing the ancient fire stick technique.
That big stick is called Didgeridoo.
It is a wind instrument of the Indigenous Australians of northern Australia. It is sometimes described as a natural wooden trumpet or “drone pipe”.
The flame in the didgeridoo will only ignite by playing a particular note.
Using the ancient fire stick technique a coal ember is created from the didge wood and placed with kindling into the end of the didgeridoo. By playing a very rapid rhythm, the ember ignites and becomes a fire that sounds out of the didge.
It looks cool when Bruce is playing the didgeridoo and it is sprouting fire.
It took him 3 months of trying to make the didgeridoo sprout fire.
Bruce is a master didge player, taking the instrument to new levels such as playing underwater, playing two didges simultaneously while running, repelling crocodiles with a special note, storytelling, and sound healing.
