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Yidaki (Key E, Toot G#)

Key: E
Toot: G#

Didjeridus from this region are made in the West Arnhem style. Called Mago, they’re different and special and follow the tradition made famous by Beswick’s Mago Master, elder David Blanasi.

Ghunmarn didjeridus are sourced on country, and hand cut from Woolybutt trees. Artists travel considerable distances on foot to find the right woolybutt tree naturally hollowed out by termites. Good instruments are hand-cut and taken back to camp to be worked, shaped, sanded, tuned and then finally painted.

These are top quality musical instruments, highly regarded worldwide, and still used in ceremony and performance today. Featuring traditional designs handed painted with a Jarlk grass brush.

 

Most Ghunamrn didjeridus are high pitch D, low pitch D, F, C or G. The longer the dij the lower the pitch, a shorter didj will give a higher sound.

Categories: Djilpin Arts Aboriginal Corporation

Name: Lance Guyula

Language: Yolngu, Kriol, Djambarrpuyungu, Ritharngu, Wägilak

Community: Wugularr (Beswick)

Biography:

Lance is a self taught artefact maker specialising in traditional hunting implements. As a young boy Lance used to watch his Grandfather and other old people create artefacts. These artists didn’t officially teach, and instead Lance learned through observation and then practice, repetition being key to his success.

At some point Lance realised he could make a good functional spear and continues to proudly do so today. “Each time I make gubudhu (spear) I think of the old people and how they would have done it.”

Lance is proud to use traditional materials and techniques, but also happily works with modern materials due to convenience of access.

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