Holy schmoly! This didj just makes me forget about the rest of the world and focus in on vocal harmonics surfing that staccato with such incredible balance and control. Didge # 247 here on my site ought to have the greatest vocals of any of my current sticks but this is the one that pulls the most out of my own playing abilities. The overblown note is dependable and strong and not so blunt and abrupt as overblowns can tend to be. This would be called warm to the fundamental whereas many overblowns are bright to the fundamental and shakes the paintings off your walls. I can probably work those overblowns into rhythms while playing around my wife without getting yelled at to shut up.

The trumpets are also very pleasing. You can just gently increase pressure until the fundamental turns into the first trumpet, then into the second, and keep pushing up or slide it back down. Ed Drury teaches a class on trumpeting where he says this gentle pushing up into the trumpets and gentle dropping down are what will teach a player to have the greatest control over the use of their trumpets. In order for a player to practice that they need to have a stick that will allow it and honestly too many sticks out there in this world just suck for that.

There really is something special about this mix of hardwoods and epoxied bores that are carefully shaped. It's an evolution of an ancient instrument. I compare it frequently to guitars in that guitars have been around for a long time having origins both in Africa and in Spain but around the globe when that first electric guitar made a hum in the amplifier the world of guitar was turned on ear. These didges here are like electric guitars, really bringing out new potentials. And this one in particular really delivers.