Ocarinas United

Allo!

I'm Scott, and I have just picked up the Ocarina three days ago. I'm already a musician, as I've been playing guitar and singing for over 6 years, and I thought it'd be nice to learn something new. I bought The Enigma from STL Ocarina, and been learning to read music through their method book. I don't know what urged me to buy an Ocarina, but once I found Docjazz4's youtube channel, I was sold lol. My main interest in learning, is so that I can learn more Christian songs on the ocarina, so that one day I'd be able to play in my church.

Welcome Eden! I hope you enjoy it here, if you have any questions, please ask!

well i dont even have an Ocarina yet but ill be ordering my 1st one on june 1st ima start with the songbird sweet potato extended ^^ and go from there. anyway im Ben but i just go by kayasto on the internet xD OoT is the best game in the world and my fav (as it is every1s xD) i have always loved how the ocarina sounded in the game but i didnt relise it was a real instrument till just 3 or 4 years ago and im finally b gunna buy 1 (yes finally) i cant w8 to be 1 of the thousands who play the ocarina and after i get exped e-nuff ill prolly buy so more challenging ocarinas. well ill be around i guess >u> and i cant w8 till i get mah 1st 1 a thease ---> <--- ^^

Hi, I'm punterschlagen.

I'm a music teacher in western Pennsylvania (I teach piano from home and advanced music theory at a local community music school). I have a BS in Music Education and play many (with varying degrees of skill), including piano, euphonium, trumpet, and hammered dulcimer. I have passing skill on flute and clarinet (enough to teach band with) but my favorite woodwind up to this point is the recorder. I own a bass, a tenor, two altos, innumerable sopranos, and a sopranino - I'm still looking for an affordable Garklein.

I became interested in ocarinas when I received my CD by Tania Opland and Mike Freeman, "Sunset's Gold," based on the poetry of Anne McCaffrey's Pern novels. Track 10, "Ghulees," features a duet between a harmony ocarina and a tenor recorder. I became very intrigued with the idea of the harmony ocarina and took to Google to begin my search for one. I took me a while to differentiate between "double" ocarinas and "harmony" ocarinas (as well as the labels of pendant/transverse/sweet potato/inline, etc.) and find what I wanted.

I narrowed my search to Charlie Hind, John Langley, and North Country Workshop. I decided to rule out Langley because I wanted two different keys to mess around with. I like the sound of the Hind ocarinas better than the North Country ones, and the price was right. I love the sound of Hind's harmony sweet potato, but the cost... just a bit beyond me. Plus, I think the inline fingering would be a good transition from recorder.

I'm anticipating the arrival of my "Double Ocarina in Walnut" from Charlie Hind (inline harmony tenor in F/C).
Double Ocarina in Walnut

Mostly I'm looking for good tunes to play on my new ocarina. Sheet music would be nice, but I can transcribe by ear, so I've written down "Jen's Song" from a video by Mr. Hind himself. I'm also working on "Ghulees" from the CD mentioned above, and arrangements of folksongs. And I don't even have the thing in my hands yet.

Thanks for reading.

That is a very nice ocarina you have purchased punterschlagen! I would like one of those eventually!

Since I'm very familiar with the range of Mr.Hind's Double/Harmony ocarina, but I know Spring Maiden(Korean folk song) is a very lovely song when played on ocarina!

You can hear it played on a harmony ocarina of a different brand below!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCka_wGyzKA[/youtube]

I hope you enjoy it here, and since I am considering a career in music, I'm sure I will really enjoy conversing with you!

Unfortunately, this forum isn't the most active anymore, but myself and several others still frequent the forum!

Hi Everybody!

I have an 8-hole sweet potato (7 on top, one on bottom) ocarina that I bought at a renaissance festival (by John Coiner Pottery, I believe) because it was pretty and sounded nice. (Hey, you gotta start somewhere, right?) They said there was a lot of music online, etc, but I haven't seen any ocarinas online that look like mine-- they all have 6 or 10 or 12 holes or something. So I am looking around for tabs or something for my type of ocarina-- can anyone point me in the right direction?