These Didgeridoos from MEINL are a great way to get started on the oldest wind instrument in the world. The bamboo construction delivers a distinctive, impressive drone with harmonic overtones that allow you to easily achieve the desired native Australian sound. An added bonus of playing this instrument is learning circular breathing, which carries over into other wind instruments and even improves health! No mouthpiece is necessary to play this instrument, but if desired, these didgeridoos are able to securely hold the MEINL Didgeridoo Mouthpiece in place (model number DDG-MP, 100% pure beeswax).
$ 29.99
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71 of 74 people found the following review helpful
 Very nice, By
This review is from: Meinl Percussion DDG1-BK Bamboo Didgeridoo – Black (Electronics)
This was the first didgeridoo I have played on, and as a tuba player I found it very easy to play. My only complaint was that the product said nothing about the mouthpiece being part of the instrument (which it is), and since a commonly paired product was the pvc mouthpiece, I assumed it was necessary and ordered that at the same time. If you don’t buy the unnecessary mouthpiece though, it is an excellent deal!
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61 of 67 people found the following review helpful
 Very Good value for a beginning Didge., By
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This didge is attractive and fun. The one I received matches the picture above. Besides producing a quirky, but relaxing and surprisingly pleasant drone — playing a didge might actually improve the quality of your health and lengthen your life. (Just do a google search for the British Medical Journal, sleep apnea, randomized trial, didgeridoo). If you want to explore what didge playing might do for you, this model is an excellent value, lightweight and carries a quite decent sound. Sleep apnea, or pauses in breathing during your sleep, IS dangerous. These pauses means less oxygen to vital organs and an accumulation of carbon dioxide which can make you drowsy and confused the next day. It can be a silent force that imperils kidneys, hearts, lungs, raises blood pressure and even makes the effort to lose weight much tougher. Unfortunately media reports and some sleep centers have insufficiently communicated the full range of dangers associated with sleep apnea. People walk away thinking that the biggest threat is a little lost sleep and being drowsy during the daytime. Unfortunately, these are only the tip of the iceberg and sail by unnoticed. The organ damage is more subtle, sometimes even silent until relatively advanced. For the person with sleep apnea, its really a question of whether they are sleeping safely. Answer: not very, when the airway is intermittently obstructed. All too often after a few discouraging attempts to wear a CPAP or BiPAP device mask, and feeling claustrophobic or that it actually disturbs sleep that otherwise at least “seemed” normal to them, many of my patients unfortunately just give up trying. Despite trying different masks there remains a substantial number of people, way too many in fact, who can only make it part way through the night with their mask or not at all. We talk for years about the necessity of dealing with sleep apnea, but some of them only are able to press themselves to endure CPAP/BiPAP devices after they have finally suffered significant, perhaps irreversible organ damage or other health consequences of the sleep apnea. Hence, didgeridoos are an attractive, low risk, frankly fun way to supplement the management of sleep apnea along with positive-pressure airway devices. Obviously, one should speak with their physician, consider adding the didge concurrently with CPAP/BiPAP if diagnosed with more than moderate apnea, and for best results repeat the sleep study after a few months (4 in the BMJ article) of didge training to confirm it is working. Frequently persons being treated should have routine sleep testing yearly to make sure their mask is still working — the same might also be advisable for the didge strategy. Your primary physician and/or pulmunologist should be consulted for your specific needs. Participants in the BMJ study learned the circular breathing technique as part of the basic technique for conditioning airway tone and “practiced” about 30 minutes a day, 5-6 days per week. One should probably expect to maintain playing the didge for life — though duration of benefit among those who later quit was not studied. As far as we know, wearing CPAP/BiPAP doesn’t really condition the airway musculature. The user remains dependent on their machine so that if they fall asleep in the daytime while watching TV or accidently knock the mask off at night — they are sadly unprotected. Thus a wonderful benefit of didge training is that it does condition the airway and could assist in bridging the gap through these accidental mask-off times. I’ve personally owned 5 didges. This one is middle of the range in quality, very solid value, easy to use and one of the least expensive so far. Although this one does not come with a separate mouthpiece, it seems to do quite fine without one for me. The interested user, however, can purchase some beeswax BEESWAX BLOCK YELLOW 1-LB and locate a website with instructions on how to fashion one — a fairly simple task. This didge is constructed from a single piece of bamboo, is lightweight, about 1/4 inch thick, and has a slight bend in the midway down its shaft which actually seems to make it a little more responsive to vibration than my straight PVC models. Internal diameter varies but 1 and 1/4 to 1/2 inches at the ends. The vibratory tone is deep, the feel and sound pleasurable (mine is tuned to D, just about 2 octaves below middle C). Even without a mouth piece it is very responsive to variations in breath or lip technique. Single-piece didges like this features one dominant note (with one or more fairly fixed harmonics). I do like the harmonics for this model, but they are a little weaker intensity than for my other 2 didges. Its not quite as easy to “sing”…
30 of 32 people found the following review helpful
 Don’t buy this product,
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This review is from: Meinl Percussion DDG1-BK Bamboo Didgeridoo – Black (Electronics)
As a small business man, i feel bad about writing a bad review, but this product fell apart immediately. I got my Didgeridu in the mail 2 days ago. I opened the package, looked it over, and it looked awesome. I loved the sleak black look and the great lizard painting on the side of it. Were this simply a piece of neoprimitive art or decor, i’d have been happy with it. The problem arose when i started playing it. It sounded great, but started to crack almost immediately. After having played it for a few minutes i put it down, and noticed a crack that hadn’t been there before. I’m not the kind of person who gets all upset about small imperfections, and i assumed the crack was a small imperfection that i just hadn’t noticed. the next day i picked it up again, and started playing it, and more cracks started to apear. Now, on playing it a third time, probably less than 15 minutes total, the cracks go through the entire side of the didgeridu, and air escapes from them when i try to play it. I know i only paid for it, and that isn’t a lot, but i expected a product that would hold up under its intended use.
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