Auction helps sick kids

Listeners will wake up to a different tune on Coast radio tomorrow morning when the usual pop songs make way for Sunshine Coast didge master Adrian Ross on a glass didgeridoo.

The didge, made by Coast glass artist Tina Cooper, will be auctioned on air for 92.7 Mix FM’s Give Me Five For Kids appeal, which raises money for the children’s ward and paediatric services at Nambour General Hospital.

Ms Cooper said she supported the annual appeal because hospitals should be well resourced.

“My sister, Julie, who I never got to meet, died of spina bifida. If she was born today, she would have survived. Hospitals are so much better now,” she said.

“To me, these didges are an incredible healing instrument. A lot of people who sit in front of them at concerts end up crying,” she said.

Adrian, who owns two of Tina’s glass didgeridoos and uses one in his concerts, said the sound was like no other.

“Because it’s glass, the sound reflects quite well and it sounds just so much more pure,” he said.

The didge was on show at a Give Me Five Art Auction at the Mooloolaba surf club last night but will go under the hammer on its own on Thursday morning because of its expected price.

One previously sold for $7000.