[Didjeridu] Didjeridu Digest, Vol 24, Issue 6

[Wesley Pryor]

Dear Everyone...

What a great email. It's great to imagine folks making instruments out
of all kinds of stuff and the little bit of knowledge transfer is a
fantastic diversion from work. 

I just wanted to send a quick message to say that I have enjoyed these
emails over the years. They seem to have become very occasional, but
that's fine in an era of too much information anyway. After 10 years I'm
leaving this email address to take up a new job and life in South Asia. 

I'm also concluding a period as a postgraduate student and in academia.
That means my beautiful collection of didgeridus can stop collecting
dust and start making noise again. Once a week or once a fortnight is
just not enough if I'm ever to unlock the code of the N.E rhythms I
love. 

If anyone fancies catching up for a cup of chai and a jam in the park
across the road from my house in New Delhi, look me up. I'm not a
student anymore so there's time to be social and a nice person again.
Finally!

And, further, since my job will involve travel and recreation leave that
I can actually take, maybe a trip to Garma, a masterclass or to one of
the US festivals is on the agenda. Not that the US will give me a visa
with all these funny visas in my passport!

Cheers,

Wes Pryor

Wesley Pryor
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Today's Topics:

   1. Things I've Recently Learned... (Karl & Sue Kalbaugh)


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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:04:40 -0400
From: "Karl & Sue Kalbaugh" <kalbaugh at cox.net>
Subject: [Didjeridu] Things I've Recently Learned...
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That you may find interesting, amusing, maybe even useful:

 - hickory makes a great didge. It weighs a ton and is hell on tools,
however.
 - I love oak, but man, it seems very suseptable to cracking/checking
 - carbide blade/bits CAN crack and come apart
 - one can, with practice, make a very clean rip cut using a
reciprocating
saw and a metal cutting blade.
 - brown Aves "Apoxy Clay" is the high fuctose corn syrup of didge
making
 - in-laying isn't hard, just tedious
 - you think hickory is tough... Try wild locust! (I'll never use that
wood
again!).
 - Ted Koppel thinks the didgeridoo is cool
 - you can make a sculpture garden out of the bits of wood you cut off
the
ends of your didges

And finally,

 - that setting up a MySpace page is pretty dang easy. I have a gallery
up
of the didges I've made:
http://www.myspace.com/karlkalbaugh


Okay... TREEMAN in 2 weeks in Ithaca, NY!!

Hope everyone is well!!

Karl Kalbaugh



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