Ocarinas United

I'm new to both this site and the concept of an ocarina. I dabble in a lot of instruments, the main one being the violin and playing by ear on the piano and recorder. I tried a flute but...meh. Thanks to a certain "Ballad of the Windfish" by a certain Youtube ocarinist (you can point to docjazz4 now) I got interested in an ocarina. I'm planning on ordering a 12 hole and add it to my collection of items to pick up and play for fun!

I'll be lurking until I get my hands on my ocarina. Hello to all of you here!

Welcome! When I think Ballad of the Windfish on youtube, I think of mightyicecream playing to that egg. ROFL!

I also saw that one!
Unfortunately my speakers didn't like his higher notes causing them to spazz out (humming/screeching) when I *know* they were most likely a lot nicer than they sounded.

Thank for the welcome!

um Hi im Ocarinanewb and i have had an ocarina for alittle over 2 months i ordered the black 12 hole tenor from Stlocarina and i was pretty suprised at how it looked and felt. I learned about ocarinas from the same way nearly everyone else did Zelda OoT ( which is my favorite Game ) which was like 3 years ago and only learned they were real instruments only 5 months before now. Any tips for a Newb player??
i also got a 6 hole i bought in Hawaii ( I love it )

Hello everyone!

My name is Robin. I'm 24 years old and I live in Sweden. Of course I have played the Zelda games since I was little, but it was because a certain someone on Youtube that I decided to start playing. The very same day that I saw docjazz4's videos for the first time I ordered some ocarinas from STL. Well, that was just a little more than 3 weeks ago so I have not exactly been playing for a long time yet.

I have sent a request to join the Ocarinas United group on Youtube, and I have also made my first attempt at a video (group song #1). I hope you don't mind that I posted the response even though I'm not a group member yet. Please don't throw rocks at me... :roll:

Besides playing the ocarina I also enjoy watching anime, playing RPG's, larping and drinking tea

Feel free to add me on msn.

Hi everyone
My nick's Nexos and I'm glad to see that so many ocarina players grouped up into this forum
I'm interested in this instrument from a while, but just a few days ago I finally managed to get one. I live in Italy and -tough the ocarina is an italian instrument- I had problems finding it
I have a 10-hole sweet potato C ocarina ... hope to get better playing it with somebody's help xD

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Hello, incredibly i bought my ocarina today (a 10-holes in the Key of C).

I never played before but Im trying tabs before trying to learn sheet music.

well nice to meet you all, hope to make any friends and if anyone got any music for
a 10-hole in the key of C I would realy enjoy it

Hullo.
I just ordered a Songbird soprano pendant ocarina this past Thursday (Oct. 9th), so I am waiting (impaitently) for it to arrive.
I already have an 8-hole "peruvian" ocarina, which I picked-up just for looks at the local county fair a couple years ago. I never actually tried playing it until tonight, because I am getting so impatient waiting for my soprano pendant.
I have next-to-no experience playing music. I learned the basics of the recorder back in 4th grade (11 years ago) and re-learned it in a Fundamentals of Music class 4 semesters ago at college, but I did not keep practicing. I somewhat learned to sight-read sheet music in choir back in high school, but again I never kept up with practicing.
I always wanted to play an instrument, but there was always something in the way. I decided that "one day" I'd learn how to play some kind of flute-like instrument, and I had a specific sound in mind... its hard to explain what I mean, but I was sure I'd know it when I heard it.
Then, recently, one of my mentors suggested I get a new hobby to help cope with the stress in my life right now, and though I originally planned to take up the recorder again, I came across my peruvian ocarina and decided to check that out instead.
After I ended up browsing ocarina videos on YouTube, I realized that the sound I was looking for was indeed a soprano ocarina. (I hope this isn't sounding too cheesey...)
I found out about this forum through YouTube, and thought that it could serve as a good resource for information and for shooting the breeze with other ocarinists once I get playing.
So, I have never been a member of a forum before, and I have never seriously tried to learn an instrument before.
I am glad to meet you all.

-dAndy

Hey everyone,
My names Mark and i have yet to start playing, but i am waiting on my ocarina to be shipped.
I got a tenor pendant from songbird and i got about another week i would guess for it to reach my house.

Hi! My name is Ema and I´m Portuguese.I collect ocarinas for ages, depites the fact I aways lost some (Go figure!).I started playing my ocarinas quite recently and I really want to enjoy it more.

Hey I'm Spitfire and I sure feel like the late show but i won't let that stop me
Anyways I just recently bought an ocarina, and by recent I mean today.

A week ago I was thinking of Zelda for some unknown reason (maybe the anniversary of it not sure), and an hour later i was searching all sorts of websites and youtube's videos of everyone, snooping about until I was pulled in to buying one of my own. I play guitar and bass and sing just a tad, and I am hoping to add the Ocarina (and violin) to my list in the near future.

Howdy guys,

My name's David, and I picked up my first ocarina about six weeks ago. I started with a black 12 hole tenor from stl, and it's treated me very well (thanks Docjazz4). I've picked up an inline and a pendant, but I really am in love with the sweet potato. Every time I start surfing the net these days I find myself coming back to Charlie Hind's site and lusting after one of his beautiful pieces. One of these days . .

Picking up the ocarina has been alot easier than I would have dreamed, and I'm already at the point where I can play in front of people with a modicum of confidence. Just a couple of weeks ago I played the offertory in worship at my church (my own little rendition of Lord of the Dance).

Glad to be a part of this. Keep playing, and make it beautiful!

Hello OU guys!

My name is Erick from San Salvador El salvador, I love ocarinas since the first day I played Zelda, but I met real ocarinas when I was just hangin on youtube and I saw a Docjazz4 video, this encouraged me to have an ocarina, so I ordered one and it arrived just two days ago.

I am a newbie with this beautiful instrument but I am not in music I play the guitar since I was 8 years and now I'm 19.

I'm glad I found this amazing site on the internet, and sorry for my bad english I'm salvadorean so spanish is my native language

Hi everyone my name Marshall but you can call me yue77. I live in Houston TX. My first ocarina was a songbird sweet potato but it broke when I was in middle school. I just got a 12 hole tenor from Stlocarina and it's hard getting to know the fingering but I'm getting there. I am also thinking about getting a pendant ocarina from songbird or maybe Stl. I hope I get some great tips from everyone on this site.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!

hello i am new here also and i have played the ocarina for about a month now and thats it.