Paul Cook, Who is he?

Paul Cook (aka Tall Paul), grew up in a village just outside Dartford and lived in Kent for most of his life. After doing quite a bit of travelling, including Australia of course, he has now lived in Gravesend with his wife and two children for 15 years.

He has been playing the didgeridoo for around 25 years and is considered one of the greatest didgeridoo performers in the UK with several appearances on radio stations across the country, television and producing music in films. Paul started making didgeridoos around the year 2000 and his instruments are widely respected by players around the world. He has been teaching the didgeridoo for many years, running workshops at a wide variety of festivals and visiting schools to teach the didgeridoo and Australian Aboriginal culture. Paul also runs his own festival called Elementary didgeridoo Festival

Comment Does Paul do his didgs?
He makes different styles of instruments. One with wood imported from Australia, the other with a variety of native English wood.

Paul tells us:
My didgeridoos made from logs shipped from Australia: They are cut especially for me by a close friend, who knows exactly what to cut to suit the style of didge I want to build.

With the use of long gouges and custom drills, I carve the interior using the galleries left by termites as a guide. The advantage of this method is the resulting sound quality is phenomenal, as Australian eucalyptus is one of the hardest and densest woods on earth. The majority of the wood I use is Woolubutt eucalyptus.

Beginner to Expert: I build didges for many different playing styles and levels, ranging from beginner to expert, including: powerful, meditative, multi drone/multi toots cones; and many hybrids.