This didge offers the same excitement as standing on a huge stage playing through giant Marshal stacks. Something about the bigger than life delivery that gives it an incredible magic. Alder is very soft for a hardwood but makes for outstanding sounding didges. Alder is also lightweight and very beautiful. My daughter wanted the fills on this piece to be purple so we added blue to red but ended up with brown so we adjusted them to black but it started a pretty hilarious thread in which this didge was being created to honor the unity of the Red People and the Blue People, and the Brown and Black, which led to discussion of the forming of an Esperanto gang, hellbent on unity and universal inclusion so you're either with us or with us, which is it?