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Mako (Key: G#, Toot: D)

 Key: G#
Toot: D

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.

Name: Travis Seccin


Language: English, Kriol


Community: Wugularr (Beswick)


Biography:

Travis is a dedicated guide for Djilpin Art's museum and on country tourism program. Having been "grown up" by senior elder, Djilpin Art's board member and custodian Frankie "Tango" Lane, Travis has been surrounded by art, artists and cultural knowledge from a younger age.

He has spent many an hour watching, helping and preparing work for Tango. Circa mid-2022 Travis decided to give artefact making a go first hand. Under Tango's tutelage he has learned to shape and tune Mako (didgeridoo), shape and paint clap-sticks as well as harvest bark. 


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