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Health of the didjeridu market [message #2290]

Fri, 16 December 2005 11:01

JKon380
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Is the didjeridu market healthy?[ 2 votes ]
1.	Healthy	0 / 0%
2.	There is a need for concern	2 / 100%
3.	In Dire Trouble	0 / 0%

Given our recent discussions about the didjeridu industry both in Australia and abroad, I began thinking about the health of the industry and its sustainability. Interest in the didjeridu skyrocketed during the late nineties, partly because of the emergence of Yothu Yindi and other Aboriginal groups, and this traditional instrument suddenly became a commodified product, with salesmanship and importation influencing the industry, as a certain level of greed takes over. As traditionally made instruments become harder to find, it is only natural that people have started finding lower priced alternatives, and being presented as being 'better' than the originals.

So my questions are (and I hope to get some good conversation going here:

Do you think that the didjeridu industry has grown too quickly, with tourist grade instruments flooding the market?

Can we reconcile the traditional place of the instrument with the new movement toward performance-based instruments?

As a modern player, do you feel eucalyptus best suits your style?

What do you think of a grading system on instruments

[Jason, again you refer to/advertise a competitor which is against present policy - it is also against copyright legislation to simply copy material form their or anyone elses website here, so please word any suggested grading system yourself, thanks]

((Svargo deemed my edited 'grading scale' in violation of the policy, so it seems that I have attempt to reinvent the wheel:))

There are some art centers and cultural hubs in Australia that have developed a grading system to identify the authenticity levels of didgeridoos commonly available:

CI4 (their terms): Authentic traditional Aboriginal didgeridoo: High cultural integrity instrument. 100% made and decorated, from start to finish, by a traditional custodian of the instrument. A traditional custodian is an Indigenous Australian who is entitled, by Aboriginal tradition, to make and use the didgeridoo and whose ancestors, by Aboriginal tradition, have made and used the didgeridoo. Made from termite-hollowed eucalyptus and other naturally occurring materials that were traditionally used for didgeridoo construction. (c) Guan Lin

CI3: Aboriginal didgeridoo: 100% made and decorated, from start to finish, by an Indigenous Australian who is not a traditional custodian of the instrument. Made from termite-hollowed Australian native timber, usually eucalyptus. (c) Guan Lin

CI2: Aboriginal art didgeridoo: A didgeridoo that is only decorated by an Australian Aboriginal person, but made by a non-Indigenous producer. (c) Guan Lin

CI 1: Australian didgeridoo: Any didgeridoo made and decorated (or left undecorated) by an Australian non-Indigenous producer from Australian termite-hollowed native timbers. (c) Guan Lin

CI 0: Didgeridoo: All other didgeridoos other than those in categories CI 4 to CI 1. These are made from a diversity of materials and methods in Australia and overseas.

These art centers suggest that consumers avoid grades CI 2- O

Quote from this referenced site:

"Note, however, that good quality product and ethical instrument makers can be found in these categories... many hobby craftsmen, in the USA and Europe for example, hand-make excellent quality didgeridoos from a variety of materials and methods and these can be purchased at a reasonable price. These craftsmen - and you'll find out who they are with some research - do not represent their creations as something they are not."

Jason

[Updated on: Fri, 16 December 2005 20:45]

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		Health of the didjeridu market By: JKon380 on Fri, 16 December 2005 11:01
		Re: Health of the didjeridu market By: in_didgi_nas on Fri, 16 December 2005 16:45
		Re: Health of the didjeridu market By: JKon380 on Fri, 16 December 2005 20:33
		Re: Health of the didjeridu market By: in_didgi_nas on Sat, 17 December 2005 08:51
		Re: Health of the didjeridu market By: JKon380 on Sat, 17 December 2005 11:28
		Re: Health of the didjeridu market By: in_didgi_nas on Sat, 17 December 2005 11:39
		Re: Health of the didjeridu market By: Daz on Tue, 20 December 2005 14:09
		Re: Health of the didjeridu market By: JKon380 on Tue, 20 December 2005 14:55
		Re: Health of the didjeridu market By: wolf on Tue, 20 December 2005 20:29
		Re: Health of the didjeridu market By: White Knight on Wed, 21 December 2005 07:02
		Re: Health of the didjeridu market By: Daz on Thu, 22 December 2005 02:37
		Re: Health of the didjeridu market By: JKon380 on Wed, 21 December 2005 06:53
		Re: Health of the didjeridu market By: Svargo on Tue, 10 January 2006 22:19
		Re: Health of the didjeridu market By: JKon380 on Wed, 11 January 2006 08:23
		Re: Health of the didjeridu market By: Skyer on Wed, 11 January 2006 05:13
		Re: Health of the didjeridu market By: RawFoodGuy on Thu, 23 February 2006 22:38
		Re: Health of the didjeridu market By: JKon380 on Sat, 25 February 2006 07:08
		Re: Health of the didjeridu market By: Skyer on Sat, 25 February 2006 12:16
		Re: Health of the didjeridu market By: JKon380 on Sat, 25 February 2006 15:40
		Re: Health of the didjeridu market By: Skyer on Sun, 26 February 2006 04:30
		Re: Health of the didjeridu market By: JKon380 on Sun, 26 February 2006 06:32

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