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Date: Saturday, April 24, 1999 1:42 AM

Subject: WD trip continues

well,,,,,here's the way it all went,,,Charlie Schenk (whatttaguy) and two of his companeros came down as they were passing through the area,,,(,with >others to visit further south we could not convince them to stay longer,,,but maybe next

time,,,) well anyway,,,,we all played with some of my didji's that i have here,,,and to my total amazement his 6 yr old son Dylan,,,was going around tooting and growling etc on every single one of the didjis'''...now let me tell you all that some of the didji's are BIG....like the huge one some of you played at the campfire at tucson,,,,,, tooooooo much,,,,hard to believe he was doing this,,,so I videotaped him,,,,and he will be included in the tv show im producing for the 7th or 8th (that saturday)

 
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next month,,it will have diginus, Allan Shockley ,,,,Allan Smith, Elvin from S Cal.....Karl Sackstedder,,,,stephen Kent,,,and even me on there,,,along with charlie me,,,and Dylan,,,and then a cameo of Dylan hisssself .....reason to be proud there Charlie,,,,,then out came the WD....and Charlie respectfully played on it,,,and passed it off officially to me,,,,(have pix,,,,and will send them to i guess John Madill?) to get them posted up,,,or is there a special WD site to post them???? anyway,,,,,she's a bit tough at first,,,,takes a lot'o diapraghm and if you were raised up on one like that,,,it would be easy,,,but im more used to the big bore easy players,,,,after the first night,,,i did not warm up to the sound of it very much,,,but then on the second and third trys it seemed to accept me i guess,,,and playing it is easy,,,not my playing style still,,,but an honor to part of such a large event....passing the breath on.....I noticed right off that it looked like a dead animal on the
 
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mouthpiece,,,it was only the remains of what wax was still on there and about a pound of carpet knap and hairs from who knows where,,,so i put on a nice new was mouthpiece,,,and it will leave here clean and pretty,,,,all ready to collect carpet fuzz,,,heeeeee I was going to embed a small sheriff's badge on the end of the didji,,,but thought better,,,i would have to glueit on,,,,so instead i will sign it,,,,and do my part in the journal.....it will be my honor and pleasure to turn it over to my friend David Blonski,,,,late next week hopefully,,,,ill be doing some video with David and I at the church i think,,,,just to check the acoustics with the WD,,,,,can't wait,,,,,well,,,ill get my inny and outty mail boxes straightened out here soon, and will rejoin you all on the net soon,,,,,love ya all........Deputy Didj (officially in charge for the present of the WD) and if anyone wants to write me im at didjr@ix.netcom.com
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