I've finished my first prototype wood ocarina. It was a fun project. It's actually the second prototype, since the first one was so large that when I tried to...
For future reference, the finger hole sizes are also related to the sound hole size so on a large Ocarina make the sound hole a bit smaller and maybe the ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCka_wGyzKA She is playing a Double Ocarina made by Cynthia and Tom Smith. They are makers in Alaska who make in the Alan...
Please, who is the player of this beautiful instrument? I've saved the piece for replaying and replaying to my hearts content. Must try to make one of these...
Another song from them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G82pQXeRB0o <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G82pQXeRB0o> It seems that the Oc has made it into the arena...
Was just listening and made a copy of that, too. Check out the Triple Ocarina. Verne Another song from them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G82pQXeRB0o It...
I recently purchased a bunch of miniature hard-shelled gourds to play with. Last night I made 3 ocarinas with them. I have yet to finish the tuning but they...
I'm not sure just who asked the question a while back about how to play the
old instrument which I think is much like Old Glory of which I just found I
d saved...
Sorry about this, folks. Occasionally we get a new member who wants to abuse. You won't be seeing anything like this again from robinsonanne55...shame on...
Just play 'em a tune and blow them on out with Delete and that sort of thing
for it's getting to be part of the game. I was just tootling on one of my...
Well Verne, things are as crazy as ever. I've got a bit of vacation time left so I hope to use it wisely, making flutes and ocarinas. I am trying very hard to...
Right on, Mike, Yesterday or rather two days ago I got to playing with the experimental
job I'd made for tests and still wasn't satisfied with the sound or...
Hello everyone, I'm a teacher and hobbyist woodworker. I'd like to try my hand at an ocarina - I've made a few Native American style flutes - and was ...
Well I think you've come to the right place to ask about this and there are
a few of us who work in wood around BUT to make an ocarina out of wood is
another...
Now Verne, its isn't so hard to make an ocarina on a lathe, even a bigger sized one. Jeff, I posted a sketch of a wooden ocarina in the files section and also...
Check out any song book in the library or under your piano bench and everything that is in one octave can be played quite nicely on the 10 hole because it...
Right you are, Mike, but it's still really a whistle, isn't it and of course
as I wrote that I realize an Ocarina is a whistle too. Can't win here, GRin I...
Jeff, if you have any 4 inch or so cutoffs from the end of your flutes, those will make dandy ocarinas. I make ocarinas from bamboo which is a similar process....
GAOTP, Songs for the 10 Fingerhole Sweet Potato. I'm in a good mood today so I'll tell you as they are all over the place these days with Christmas coming as...
I suspect that this person is wanting the music with the fingering pictures for a 10-hole flute, not just normal music scores. I can't recall ever seeing any...
Right you are, Mike! I've an old Army Book on how to play a 10 hole but it too just shows the scale on the lines of a music book. I do think though that this...
Next Ocarinafestival will be in Bludenz (Austria): Thursday 31th July - Sunday 3rd August 2008. See www.ocarina.at. Organized by Kurt and Edith Posch. 2009:...
Thank you very much Mr. Galliani! I'll see if I can make it for 2008. -David ... August 2008. See www.ocarina.at. Organized by Kurt and Edith Posch. ... ...
Yesterday, in the need for new strings for my guitar, I headed up town to Ye Olde Folk Shop, purveyors of all manners of traditional and folk instruments....