 Emu sound. How to make it? [message #5056] |
Wed, 07 November 2007 03:30  |
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mickdidge
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Registered: March 2006
Location: Netherlands
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Hi folks!
I can make a toot on the didge. Sustained ones, as well as the short rhytmic ones that you 'spit out'.
In a few recordings and a live-performance i attended lately i heard a real live-like emu sound. Not a trumpet/toot sound, but a clear low pitched WHOOP WHOOP, or DOOP DOOP, sound that doesn't appear to stop the drone while played.
It might be so short and powerfull that the sound sustains a bit longer than it's actually played, so that the shift to/from the drone is just not heard. I cannot figure it out.
Once i had a little explaination about dup, hup, tup overtones but I cannot grasp the essence of the differences. (or play them all) 
I hope someone can put me on the right track with some explaination or some additional exercises for the different overtones. Especially the Emu-WHOOP mentioned above.
addition d.d. 11-11-2007
Google for '"arnhem land band" + Emu' for a pretty good example of the sound.
 Just heard from someone it's done with a 'belly toot'.
Play on folks,
Mike
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