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14738
Actually, even with just dial-up it came through in less than 5 minutes, so I'd try it regardless. I think the only thing I found confusing in the book at all...
prism7513
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Nov 2, 2006
2:11 pm
14739
Deb, Check out the old posts 10928 and 10932 - they are about the long type of ocarina you are wondering about! -scott...
scott_okb9
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Nov 2, 2006
4:09 pm
14740
Here is a previous post of value... type 10930 into the MSG# box and "send". This is part of the cubic volume "window" i talked about for vessels of the same...
thomashastay
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Nov 2, 2006
5:52 pm
14741
Hello & welcome! I cant answer your questions because I'm not a maker but there is lots of discussion in the archive. Ref: ...
n_w_dog
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Nov 2, 2006
6:16 pm
14742
Hi Deb, I think I know what you speak of and the answer is right there too but you'll have to look a little more closely. Look at the two picture which are...
Verne H. Bohlender
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Nov 2, 2006
10:46 pm
14743
Hi Kevin, Thank you for the reply and welcoming I will do a bit of looking in the past files for the info. I did fond some help on a few sites. I may just dive...
NZT Designs
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Nov 3, 2006
12:53 am
14744
Hey Dennis, welcome to the another facet of native instruments! I participate over here, too. This is an even friendlier group that the Native Flute ...
Mike Jones
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Nov 3, 2006
1:17 am
14745
Hi Mike, Good to see a familiar name. I guess you cant get enough with just one type of instrument. My fear is that I will have to try them all b4 it is over. ...
NZT Designs
nztdesigns
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Nov 3, 2006
2:56 am
14746
Hi Mike and Dennis, Isn't a Flute just like an Ocarina? There's the Fipple after the air is fired into the voice hole which exits over and under the edge to...
Verne H. Bohlender
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Nov 3, 2006
3:13 am
14747
Hi Verne, I would say that the workings on both are very similar and also different. :) Many NAF makers do not think of anything on the flute the same as the...
NZT Designs
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Nov 3, 2006
4:16 am
14748
... The most fundamental difference between the typical flute and the ocarina is that most people understand "flute" to refer to the common, open tube design,...
Rick
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Nov 3, 2006
3:07 pm
14749
Hi to everybody. Does someone have a fingering chart for chinese Wudu? I have three of these old fish-ocarina. Grazie. Paolo Gavelli www.ocarinaclassica.it...
paolo_gavelli
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Nov 3, 2006
3:55 pm
14750
Verne: The NAF is different than the standard 8 hole ocarina. The ocarina is classified as a globular flute. That means that one end is closed and the ...
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in2rob
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Nov 3, 2006
4:47 pm
14751
Naf, Bob, that's cute as it sort of sounds like my latest is really. You see the SH is way up to the left and all holes are to the lower end away from the SH...
Verne H. Bohlender
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Nov 4, 2006
1:05 am
14752
Dennis, The tuning for the finger holes on an ocarina is similar to a NAF EXCEPT that location is not as important as on the NAF. The holes in ocarinas tend to...
Mike Jones
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Nov 4, 2006
3:09 am
14753
Hey Verne, There are several methods that people use some more precise than others. An easy one is to measure the bore from the sound hole to the end and...
Mike Jones
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Nov 4, 2006
3:52 am
14754
Are those "ornately" carve flutes on your website, looks like either bone or ivory, done by you? If so, any special tricks/techniques for working the material...
Mike Jones
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Nov 4, 2006
3:53 am
14755
I got started with NAF and bamboo flutes in general a bit before ocarinas. My son decided he wanted an ocarina like on the Zelda video game and since "dad can...
Mike Jones
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Nov 4, 2006
3:59 am
14756
Hi Mike, They are bone. Beef bone femur to be exact. The carving is done by my wife and myself. We have 2 like that one. Each are done from spirit dreams and...
NZT Designs
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Nov 4, 2006
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14757
Wow good info. I will give this a good read over a few more times b4 I do the next one. I may go back and re-tune the first one I did. I will check it first to...
NZT Designs
nztdesigns
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Nov 4, 2006
7:42 am
14758
Thanks, Mike. I've saved that in my Flute file where some day I'll try a book on it too. While I'm writing I'll ask all if anyone knows of Chris Maddux who...
Verne H. Bohlender
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Nov 4, 2006
4:30 pm
14759
I don't recognize the name. Mike _____ From: Ocarinaclub@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Ocarinaclub@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Verne H. Bohlender Sent: Saturday,...
Mike Jones
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Nov 5, 2006
2:02 am
14760
Sorry about that but thought it was your info on the tuning of the Indian Flute that I saved. The laying out of the finger holes that is. Verne ... From: Mike...
Verne H. Bohlender
ocblower
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Nov 5, 2006
7:24 am
14761
... Yes, there was some missing type, and the page number are cut off as well. Deb...
prism7513
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Nov 6, 2006
2:37 pm
14762
Right on, and several more besides that apparently as a good friend of mine sent me some 25 improvements that I could make and though I haven't done them all...
Verne H. Bohlender
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Nov 6, 2006
6:45 pm
14763
Getting ready for Christmas and want a piece to play with your Ocarina. Try this one and I'm sure you must know it by heart too. Verne...
Verne H. Bohlender
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Nov 7, 2006
4:18 pm
14764
Thanks Verne, Just what I needed to get the Christmas spirit going around here :) Starting to make noises that sound like songs with my 4 hole ocarina - still...
Dorothy
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Nov 7, 2006
6:34 pm
14765
I may just add a few more songs to the pages of my book which might help too or else make a separate book with just the music I've picked up over the years....
Verne H. Bohlender
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Nov 7, 2006
8:32 pm
14766
i think I missed something by not getting the e-mail - I look at the messages on Yahoo Groups. Was there a link to a new song somewhere, or do you have an ...
prism7513
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Nov 9, 2006
11:22 pm
14767
Well, 3 ocarinas later, and I'm getting kind of frustrated. My first ocarina was very "airy" or "breathy". My second ocarina was perfect. I played it for two...
prism7513
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Nov 9, 2006
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