Ocarinas United

welcome koji.

nice to see you joined the forums!

Hello!

Let me present myself =3

I'm borja, living on spain and been born hermaphordite...blablabla...mass suicides...blablabla...mass circonsicion... Forget that. You can just call me "yoshi" ^^

I got my first ocarina around 10-11 years old (like 6 years ago ), and been playing it randmonly since then.

But one day,i accidentally crashed my ocarina =( but my father got it repaired ^0^. Recently i moved, and i was told to choose not so much things... but i ended up only gathering my notebook and the ocarina.

When i looked at my ocarina for first time, it seemed to me like a pan flaute, and i kinda enjoyed it ^^

I guess you want to look at my ocarina, so take a look!

http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/8928/pict0025au4.jpg

8 holes...

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/848/pict0026ky2.jpg

9 holes...

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/591/pict0027qt8.jpg

...11 holes

Well, see you 'round!

This is kind of a step up for me, as I don't normally make myself known in public too often. (shy-ness issues)

My name is Kaya, and I have been playing the ocarina sense 1998 when I found a handmade pendant ocarina in a Renaissance Fair store. I didn't know that the instrument I was playing was indeed an ocarina until much later. The ocarina was sadly stolen from me the year after at school.

My second ocarina I got in the year 2000 when I went over to a friends house to discover that she had a Songbird sweet potato (not extended). I knew it THEN as a Zelda ocarina. Surprised to see that it still only had 5 holes, I picked it up and was playing tunes in no time. My friend grew so tired of me coming over and grabbing it first thing, that she decided to give it to me, insisting that she didn't have any interest in learning to play it. This was probably the best and most memorable thing my friend ever gave me.

I now have 2 pendants, the old songbird, and an stl 12-hole alto ocarina.

I don't know if I really qualify for an "advanced" player because though I understand musical theory and can read music, I am very slow at it and play most of my music by ear: I'm better at that... xD if you feel the need to move me to that section then, then feel free to ^_^;; I have no objections. I am, after all, just a new person. don't know my way around here.

oh! I discovered this site from Google.

My name is Jordan Dietrich; I have been playing off and on for a decade. Only last year did I learn about ocarinas with a range greater than a 12th; from that point I have been obsessed, not only with improving my musicianship on the instrument, but with improving the instruments themselves. I've become expert in my understanding of the 4 hole tuning system and how it can be expanded and applied to various types of ocarinas. I currently am developing new styles of ocarina with improved capabilities. My favorite ocarina is the so-called compact double from STL (a double pendant, each chamber pitched in the key of C and an octave apart). It is the most capable ocarina on the market, a fact I intend to demonstrate in STL Ocarina's upcoming star search competition. Thank you for welcoming me into the community!

Hi im Cloud McCleod of Rare Earth Flutes www.rareearthflutes.com and i have been a self taught ocarina maker for 20+ years. i found the ocarina as i was exploring the world without my very expensive Powell concert flute and i missed it dearly. One day as i was walking around at a concert (Grateful Dead 1987) i heard the amazing sound of the ocarina for the first time. Several in fact, as i tried to pin point where the sound was coming from, i was astounded when i discovered that it was from these tiny little clay whistles...and on a necklace cord so as to be portable and fashionably correct even!!!

It took me 4 days to locate the guy that had them and he had ONE left! a pit fired hawaiian one with a palm tree (made by an aprentice of shalimar for those in the know).I traded a batique shirt i had made for the oc and a medicine bag with a smoke quartz crystal and a piece of florite.

i loved having a treasure that plays everything and travels everywhere i go...then it broke. (not properly fired to begin with)

So i sat down 20 years ago with a lump of recycled clay and a rusty nail and taught myself how to carve fipples out of clay...one after the other till i got it down(took about 200 or so before i felt they were quality for the world...that happened in the first 6 months)....and now ...well ...check out my afore mentioned website and my youtube page www.youtube.com/omashanti

May the flutes be with you all fellow oc enthusiasts!

Cloud McCleod

Welcome Mr.McCleod!

I hope I can learn a lot from you here!

reev0 wrote:I have been playing ocarina off and on since 2001, when I went to Bristol Renaissance Faire (in Wisconsin).

HOLY HELL! We started the same year at the same place!

Funny how the first post is that too....ah well...my introduction.

I got my first and current 9-hold (at least I think it's a 9-hole. 7 up, two down...yeah okay...had to make sure.) in 2001 at the Bristol Renaissance Faire, but when the guy asked me if I'd like the Zelda songs tab sheet, I turned him down, and busted out a quick and dirty version of Althena's Theme from Lunar: SSSC and then proceeded to annoy everyone around me as I experimented with it. I've been doing that on and off again since then, learning every song by ear. (to date, the songs I can remember without thinking are Althena's Theme, Depend on You, Terra's Theme, Zankoku na Tenshi no Teeze, Yuffie's theme, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, RedXIII's theme, FFVII overworld, Super Mario Theme, and ReallyAnnoyingHighPitchedScreechOfDoom).

Found the site when I finally decided to look for anything new I'd never think of playing...and so far have found nothing. Not that there's nothing here, I just am having trouble navigating the site, and thus have NO CLUE where to look.

Anyways, I like to play, and I'm in the market for something softer sounding as the AltoC is getting a bit rash from wear and tear. Anyone got any suggestions?