I saw this didgeridoo for sale on TradeMe last week. The photos on the auction were bad, I couldn't really see the art work, the it said nothing about how it played, but I had to have it. I just had a feeling about it. It arrived by courier today. The only thing the seller could tell me about it was that it was gifted to a friend of his, who is now deceased, about 25 years ago in Australia. It has some very intricate artwork on it, which unfortunatly is badly faded. There is one small hole which needs to be filled before it can be played, and it will need a wax mouth peice, both of which I can do. I would love to restore the original art work but I'm not sure how to go about that (yet).
I trying to find out more about it so if anyone recognises this art and can tell me more about its meaning or where it might have come from, please let me know.
The artwork starts about six inches below the mouth peice and goes down to about six inches from the bell end. Broad black lines divide the intricate white crosshatching into eight sections.
It has a lovely unique bell-end. Can't wait to find out how it sounds.
So this has become my next project. Restoring this instrument to its former glory.
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