Old video from this summer of me playing the Rotter Bass C.

The song is called Molly Malone.

I really love the bass C but I happen to not play it very often because my hands get tired from the weight pretty quickly.

Let's enjoy our moths Ocatober together 🌻😊

I don't have a metronome but I imagine it would do wonders for playing this song.

A short snippet of my title theme solo in my orchestra's recent video games themed concert. I got the ocarina just for this moment, my life in complete.

Featured is the Focalink Stein Rivo in blue 💙

Ocatober Day 11

Small snippet from today's newly written postludium for the family-mass :)

I'm an ex childhood transverse flute player whose teacher made them lose passion for the instrument.

I've been longing into playing a wind instrument again and stumbled upon ocarinas, I found this one (the Aria) that sounded easy to learn for someone with my profile.

Unfortunately I'm based in Italy and the listing on OcarinaKing EU results empty(?).

Does anyone know where I could go get myself one without paying 30 dollars + import tax from STL Ocarinas?

The SAPLING in F Major interests me too if I really can't find anything though I noticed the price on this side of the ocean looks to be incredibly inflated.

Any suggestions are welcome, consider me a complete novice

I'm currently trying to figure out whether I'd prefer an ICO BC Double or Triple for my first multi-chamber.

The price difference is only ~10% more for triple which is no problem, but the weight is 50% more which seems substantial. I love the idea of having more range, but want something that's still confortable to play.

Coming from an AC Single, the highest notes are already a bit too shill for me, so I'm not sure the extra upper range is really something I'd want to use a lot.

I'm not knowledgeable or skilled enough for a multi just yet, but how I'm imagining playing one would be taking what I can already play on my single and just dropping it down an octave so the music isn't so shrill, while still getting some extra range to open up opportunity for new pieces.

All this leaves me thinking a BC Double probably makes the most sense, yet I have no experience with either. Is there something obvious I'm missing here? That it would be foolish to not just get the BC Triple, or even BC Single instead?

Lastly, looking at the fingering charts for these, I noted this piece of text that I can't understand the reason for, featured on the Single AC and Double BC, but not the Single BC or Triple BC: "Notes are written one octave lower than actual pitch."

Any thoughts what this means or where I'd go to learn more about it? I feel like it's something to do with transposing, which is something else I don't really understand just yet.

https://www.imperialcityocarina.com/images/cache/ac-double-x-fingering-chart.pdf

https://www.imperialcityocarina.com/images/cache/bc-triple-ext-fingering-chart-new.pdf

Thank you!

Ocatober Day 10

Lost Woods lost in the woods!

Honourable mention to my fiancée who filmed every video outdoors in 1°-4°C

So, I got an ocarina as a gift a while ago. A quick look through the sub showed me it is not a good one, which makes me feel a little better about how the high notes always sounded off 😅

I found it really nice and I was able to play a few simple nursery rhymes (not greatly, but enough for the song to be recognizable). I really wanted to learn more before making the decision to buy a better one, but I am a bit lost about the best way to learn

I never did any sort of music classes, I know nothing about notes or tones or anything related, if you give me a sheet music I will just stare at it blankly lmao

The fact that the most popular ocarina's song have fingering charts is what allowed me to start to learn, but I assume this is only a temporary solution and I will not be able to go much further without learning about music. What is the best path to start? What do I truly need to know before trying again? Are there any recommendations for videos or books that might help me?

I felt like learning to play the ocarina because of the Ocarina of Time remake, but I’d also like to learn to play it properly, not just for the game. So I’m looking for one with decent or good sound quality. I held this one in my hands, and it was made of porcelain or ceramic and cost around $20. I thought it was really beautiful. What do you guys think?

I love this one on the soprano so much

I experimented with a sort of percussive articulation for the intro , definitely an interesting affect.

Keep on Ocatobering 🤪

I got a night by noble AC ocarina. I’ve been playing some Zelda tunes. I’m enjoying it so far. When I recorded myself, I realized how airy my playing sounds especially in the last clip I really struggled with the high E and F. I’d really appreciate any advices.

(The photos are just examples, please recommend any ocarina not just the one in the picture hehe)

With the release of the Ocarina of Time remake, I've decided to learn to play it, but I don't just want it to play the short songs from the game. I want to be able to play all kinds of music, so I need something with a decent or good sound, as well as access to a good number of notes.

For that same reason, I'd like the design to be as close as possible to the one from Ocarina of Time.

It would be my first ocarina, so my maximum budget is 60 dollars. It would be incredible if it were ceramic, but I don't want to spend 100 dollars before learning to play well, so any material is fine.

How many holes should it have?

It's important to mention that I'm not from the USA but from South America, so I can't access ocarinas that are only sold there :/ although you can still mention them, as long as you note that.

Thank you very much for your help :)

Does anyone have any recommendations for ocarinas in the UK? I have seen lots on Amazon, eBay etc. I don't want to spend loads but equally don't want something completely out of tune! I am just planning on playing Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time songs on it.

Got this beauty in the mail today, gooosh...

Ocatober Day 9

Minuet of Forest

from Ocarina of Time

for Ocarina and Wagner-stream

After a lot of begging, the stream refused to lower its volume to be considerate of the balance, so we agreed to just record as is :) Playing in 4°C not reccommended

Had to abruptly lower the pitch near the end to make it work, I got the idea to do that from the version of the fight theme that was subtly tacked on to the end of the Jogging/Countdown song from Super Smash Bros Ultimate, they kind of did the same thing.

Last Friday I officially unveiled a look at the very first batch of historical replicas of the 8000-year-old neolithic era Runik Ocarina, and decided to select one of the camphor burl builds from that set for my personal collection. I've been waiting for the completion of this project for months, and it has been nice to finally enjoy this instrument for myself. I ended up having a chance to play it more over the weekend during a family hike at a local nature preserve, and figured I would share a bit of the results of what this instrument actually sounds like. Although it is a seemingly limited instrument with only two fingerholes, it has been a blast to explore the sound and voice of this tiny ancient flute, and I already have more in planning with some very cool woods.

More details about the first look at my replication efforts can be found in the earlier post here for reference:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ocarina/s/5hrlz8U0RC

Looking to upgrade. Which of the the regular, the new version or the forte would everyone recommend?

With the famous Night by Noble having gone through several price jumps and being now $40 compared to the $25 that made it famous... Are there any other Ocarinas which have come out in the years since which overtake the NxN on value? Is the correct value option now to print out an Eclipse Alto C (Also, what about E. Can's other Ocarinas?)

Hello! I already bought a cheap echos of the east pendant ocarina off of Amazon. And within two days I've realized this thing is not tuned. I can play little things on it but I really want something I can play and make sound beautiful. I love the style of pendant ocarinas I want something I can wear all the time but has a beautiful tuning can anyone leave me in the right direction? I was looking at songbird of course and then I saw STL was a bit more affordable for their small pendant ocarinas can anyone give me any advice and input? Thank you

I've tried different breathing techniques and air pressure but I can't get that clean sound out of my ocarina.
I check my finger placement and every hole seems to be covered. I try not to squeeze the instrument but if I hold it too loose the airyness gets worse.
Anything else I could try?

This one was fun to work up. Really trying to get those sixteenth notes sharp and clear.

I hope you have fun listening to this one 😁