WMDs found (Top secret CIA photo)

Recent top secret CIA photo reveals a true threat to peaceful freedom-loving sessions around the world. We must destroy this evil before the proof shows up in the form of a toilet seat. You’re either with us, or you’re with the didjibodhránists.

The didjibodhrán

P.S. Sorry Murphy, this is too important and I had to post it.

:laughing: nano, this looks like something even I could play. Where is that session you go to?

NANO?

You been at the Sherry again Cynth :wink:

Slan,
D. :laughing:

Wow! A didg that even LOOKS like a toilet seat–how, um, ironic.

As someone once said about the pipes, “It’s a good thing that instrument doesn’t smell!”

Well, if nano comes along he’ll see it. He seems to be especially fond of the bodhran and I think he would really like this new improved version. I actually think maybe I need some sherry, but I don’t drink, so…Any good substitutes, anyone?

Well, yeah. But you don’t drink. :wink:

Now, if that thing is fingered like a r****der we’re in real trouble.

There’s no picture showing up. :sniffle:

Consider yourself fortunate. That thing is vile.

:wink:

Oh, lovely. Now I really want to see it . . . like rubbernecking at an accident scene . . .

I know someone who would love this thing, I’m sure of it. He plays bodhran and dumbek, and is learning to play the digeridoo and loving it. This would be PERFECT for him! Shh, don’t anybody tell him about it!

Here’s the link, maybe if you click on it directly, it’ll display on your computer.

http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/didjbod.jpg

Oh… Eek! (fluffing my fluffy feathers to ful fluffiness) :smiley:

And the audio.

http://www.oddmusic.com/clips/djb1.mp3

It seems strange to me to see the Kaval and Shakuhachi Flute on the same list as the Didjibodhrán

[scenario=session]“Why, Cynth! Lovely to finally meet you. What a remarkable..um..instrument…you have there. ahem cough Oh, look at the time. Sorry, all, but I really must get going. I’ve neglected to trim my cat’s claws --yeah, that’s it-- and I really mustn’t put it off any longer. Ta-ta, and Cynth: let’s do lunch. Love ya. Mean it. 'Bye.”[/scenario] :wink:

[scenario continued]actual sound of it[/scenario]

That instrument comes from a place called Burnt Earth which makes a variety of ceramic musical instruments. If you go to their web site you will find a variety of things which you could use to but the poo out of the members of your session. Look in the gallery. Those instruments are relatively expensive, however. A simple set of bones, spoons, or a cajun rub board or washboard will upset everyone just as much at a much lower price.

http://www.ninestones.com/burntearth.shtml

I just think its proper home is at a different kind of session. Actually, you might not even want to use the word “session” as it is too connotative of ITM. Maybe you would call it a “junkyard jam.” And I mean that in the very kindest of ways.

Once, I saw a busker in Baltimore playing very compelling, steel drum style music on pots and trash cans.

It is true that the subject of this thread looks like something from Jabba the Hutt’s jazz band, and squawks amazingly, but just imagine all the things you could rescue from the Island of Misfit Instruments to join the ensemble.

Like this?

:wink:

A circular digeridoo and a frame drum all in one instrument is a novel idea. I notice that the exhaust for the digeridoo faces the surface of the drum head. The frequency of the digeridoo could be made such that the drum head would act as a resonator. I have experimented with this with the frame drums that I own. For example, placing a kalimba on the drum head will cause the drum head to act as an amplifier. Since digeridoo players often play a rhythm instrument (rattle, sticks) with a free hand, the idea of playing a drone and rhythm in one instrument is an interesting idea. However, I expect that sounds from such an instrument would be too close to the head for comfort.