Alice Springs Shopping
Go shopping in Alice Springs with recommendations, reviews, tips and photos posted by real travelers and locals.
Local Time 9:33 pm Saturday, July 26, 2008
Alice Springs Map
Alice Springs Map
on August 13, 2005
These huge bass-heavy tubes are a mainstay of aboriginal culture and music since time began. And, a number of modern musical acts have incorporated the timeless din of the "didg" into their songs. See my Australia tip concerning the multi-talented Xavier Rudd.
There are numerous places in and around Alice Springs for one to purchase a didgery-doo. Now, the good ones are not cheap, not by a long shot. I'd say the price for a large, well-made and beautifully decorated pipe will run you some A$300, which will include shipping and insurance to sent it home.
If you DO buy a large didgery-doo, please let me beg you, as a fellow passenger..... DO let them ship it home. Don't drag in onto 15 hour plane rides home. Please. ; ) You'll only be saving yourself about A$30 or so anyway. You don't want to carry it, mate.
Don't worry, there'll be plenty of time to master it when you get back home. You might want to get some downers for your dog or cat before you cut loose with the beast back home. The eery sound IS an acquired taste, and based on my Xavier Rudd album, domestic animals take a long time to acquire said taste. : )
They come in all sizes pretty much. But if you're gonna buy one, bite the bullet. Get a great big one and have it shipped home.
If you want to be sure you get a genuine aboriginally-decorated instrument, ask for information on the artist, which should be attached to or readily available for your examination. Make sure some aborigine artist carved the thing, mate.... You'd hate to get home with something stamped "Product of Sri Lanka". No offense to Sri Lanka, but it's not prime didgery-doo territory.
Depending on size and quality, A$150 - A$400 or so. The cheaper ones might just have little worms in the wood. Like anything anywhere else, you get what you pay for. ; )
on November 27, 2005
on November 21, 2003
on July 7, 2008
on February 28, 2008
on April 10, 2003
on March 5, 2007
