friend told him that the subject was illustrated in a early hours (bbc open university

friend told him that the subject was illustrated in a early hours (bbc open university?)programme in the 70's by a mathmatician named (coincidentally!)John Taylor. As a scientist the beeb will roll out the records quickly for you, most kind if you let me know your results,as currently,the only way I can think of arriving at a formula is to measure my ocarinas and crunch.You may like to try this at Gunn. I

do overseas and home workshops as you may have already noticed. baz

There is x.relation of fipple window size to edge plane (mid-line through total surface area),1/66 is a guess and varies acording to what timbre > volume > and range is ordered.Larger ocarinas can be 1/125 y.holes closer to the fipple must be larger to counterbalance pressure loss when tuned for equal breath (dynamic)tones. z.Proportional 4 hole octave tuning is linked (only retrospectively)with Fibonacci's proportions and is slightly different. I suspect the physics of the ocarina to be as easy to express as quipu knots math-but good luck. Barry

"Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for the love of it,then you do it for a few friends, and finally you do it for money." - Moliere

When you work, you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music.

Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Subject: Re: re: fingering for an Ocarina?

From: jack@purr.demon.co.uk (Jack Campin)

Date: 1997/12/25

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lutemann@aol.com (Lutemann) writes:

> Can anyone tell me how this thing ( the ocarina ) is played. It's got

> me stumped. There are three holes in the bottom which do what? I got

> a nice clay one for my 10 year old for Christmas and want to show her

> how to play it.

The basic principle is that all that determines the pitch you get is the

total cross-sectional area of open hole. Which holes are opened to get

there doesn't matter. It's a Helmholtz resonator.

There are two designs of ocarina. The Mexican type, which you have, takes

the minimalist approach of giving you exactly enough holes of different

sizes to provide a scale. Usually they have four holes; three will limit

the tunes you can play very severely. You need to use every possible finger

combination to get all the notes. The other type is the European one.

These have more holes than you need on acoustic principles; mine has ten,

one for each finger and both thumbs. The idea of this is that uncovering

them in the same sequence as on a whistle will give you the same scale,

with the extra holes providing a bit more range at the top. Ergonomically

I find these far easier, but they are hard to find these days and the

Mexican ones come in a wider range of sizes and generally have a more

interesting sound. Be warned, though, that they are all made of fired

clay, and tuning is performed by discarding the duds. Unless you played

through a suitcaseful, yours won't be in tune, and can't be tuned; filing

can only lower the pitch of several notes at once and usually breaks the

instrument anyway. The European ocarina is a development of the gemshorn,

which had the same acoustic principles. Much easier to tune. (You could

presumably make a gemshorn using Mexican-style fingering; I've never heard

of that being done, and for a large one some holes would have to be huge).

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Bischoff hire Yablo thinking his name was "Yeah I blow." Bischoff then finds

out who Yablo really is and tries to void the contact. Meanwhile yablo sues and

is allowed to feud with Bischoff. Bischoff uses Yablo to try to undermine the

Austin-McMahon angle by saying "Well at least Yablo is man enough to accept my

challenge."

The next week the two have a "Ocarina bloodbath" match in which the first

person to bust the opponent open with the ocarina wins the match. Yablo kicks

Bischoff in the nads, grabs the ocarina, pulls off his mask, and reveals

himself as Vincent Kennedy McMahon, Jr. Then he hits Bischoff right between the

eyes with the ocarina, which was loaded with a brick. Bischoff gets the sense

knocked back into him and starts to plan his bookings.

There, my two cents.

RabidRook

I would bet that DVV played most instruments, in private. He seems likethe sort of person who if he saw an instrument lying there he'd pick itup and try to play it. I had an uncle who could play the ocarina. Itwas, in fact, a blue swirl ocarina, but it wasn't five miles long. Inever understood it. It looked like a cross between a potato and arecorder and had a haunting tone. I couldn't get any sound out of it. Icould see the connection, shapewise, as to how it would come up in IWanna Find A Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go, althoughthat song is obviously about a lot more than yams, potatoes and ocarinas. I wonder if Don played the ocarina. He would have been anolder pre-teen, I figure, around the time that ocarinas were popular(although they were never all that popular ever.) s/michael

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Come on and hold me tight

[above riff]

I love you

A D E D A D E D

/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

[repeat verse]

[ocarina solo over verse chords - no ocarina tab, but there are only

four notes to it (E, G, A, and B) and you too should be able to play it

withinfive minutes of picking up an ocarina]

Break 2:

Wild thing, I think you move me

But I wanna know for sure

So c'mon and hold me tight

You move me

[repeat verse]

Coda:

A D E

Wild thing

D A D E

C'mon, c'mon, wild thing

D A

Shake it, shake it, wild thing [fade]

_______LADY IN THE PSYCHIATRIST'S WAITING ROOM She breathed in my earPlaced her fingers over my nostrilsAnd played my fat empty headLike an ocarina toot-toot-toot!

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Rosette Gault has informed me that there is now a paper clay web site with

lots of basic info on paper clay. This should answer a lot of those

questions we see here on clayart. You can find out how to get more advanced

information or even sources for commercially produced paper clay (as

mentioned before here on clayart). The URL is:

http://www.ceramicpclay.com/ncc/

And it's added to the CeramicsWeb Add-a-link page, too, if you forget this URL

I noticed that just today someone added an ocarina page to the CeramicsWeb

links. Always something new...

Richard

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Subject: Re: How to make a ceramic whistle?

From: K Gasmier <k.gasmier@COWAN.EDU.AU>

Date: 1997/05/01

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Hi,

My only suggestion would be that, roughly speaking, this is what is

also called ocarina -italian folk instrument & the info on how made

might be buried somewhere under that term.

Ceramic whistle sounds like a scientist's term rather than a

musicians. cf. who would look for violin making under chordophones?

Ken Gasmier

WA APA

W Australia

Subject: Re: Mousies and Bunnies (was Re: Ring around the rosey . . .)

From: dillo@ohww.norman.ok.us (Lizz Braver)

Date: 1997/03/11

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In article <5g2q97$ag0@mtinsc03.worldnet.att.net>,

Bob.Hiebert@worldnet.att.netNOSPAM says...

>Finally, some lyrics were posted (I know, there were links).

>This makes me wonder if this hasn't mutated to

>(sung)

>Love them little mousies

>Mousies what I eat

>Bite they little heads off

>Stomp they little feet.

Kliban wrote the above ditty for one of his cats to sing,

self-accompanied on the guitar. One assumes the cat was not

finger-picking.

>Not knowing the melody to the FooFoo song, does anybody know if these

two

>have the same melody.

Send me a blank cassette tape. I will have the Imps of Satan sweetly

warble "Little Bunny Foo-Foo" self-accompanied on ocarina and mother's

nerves.

Lizz "Only two-fifty postage and handling" Braver

Subject: alt.fan.lemurs: Frinkquently Asked Questions (Part 7 of 7, Real Lemur Facts)

Lemurcon '94 was the first big alt.fan.lemurs gathering, once again being heldin Durham, North Carolina. Its success had a lot to do with the fact that, forthe first time, someone from the newsgroup was actually IN DURHAM and there-fore could coordinate events with the Duke University Primate Center, set up ahotel, get the barbecue stuff, and so forth without having to do a lot of longdistance calls.

Lemurcon '94 took place on a scorcher of a day, Saturday, July 9, 1994

Memorable moments included: * Canopus nuzzling all of us, apparently out of affection but actually looking for food * Chiggers, chiggers, chiggers! * Finding the slimy thing in the box of Twinkies * Rollande Krandall playing her ocarina to a troop of ringtails while they mewed in time to the music

Subject: alt.fan.lemurs: Frinkquently Asked Questions (Part 7 of 7, Real Lemur Facts)

Tom Boutell (Oldbie Level Ocarina) provides a list of t.b Oldbies who have web pages:http://www.boutell.com/boutell/tb/tb.html

Subject: Meditations On JesusFrom: fridayNOSPAM@cybercom.net (Irreverend Friday Jones)Date: 1997/04/14 Message-ID: <fridayNOSPAM-1404972059590001@mfd-dial4-3.cybercom.net> Newsgroups: alt.slack[Subscribe to alt.slack]

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Jesus owes me a T-shirt!Jesus is in there watching E.T. on the T.V.!Jesus owes no one a t-shirt only fags have to have t-shirts to be a realreligion. My god needs no t-shirtAll of MY Shordurpersavs GIVE OUT T-SHIRTS for a modest gratuity Who ever shall call upon the lord Jesus Christ will be savedI called upon the Lord Jesus Christ and now have restocked on all mySubGenius paraphernalia.I fought Jesus once. He broke my fucking hip.

MY Jesus JAYWALKSYour jesus is a false prophet who needs casting out MY Jesus wears COOL SHOESMY Jesus eats CHEAP CHINESE FOODMY Jesus *IS* a nigger!My Jesus watches tv all day.That's right, Jesus could use a little REcasting.

My Jesus is a linebacker for the 49ersMy jay-shus eats rusty nails, sleeps on a bed of nails and can WHUP YERFALSE PROFITS ASS blindfolded, gagged, and strapped to a tesla coilToo many jesus's make a mess of the brothMY Jesus wons an OCARINA but is TOO COOL to PLAY ITJesus WAS God incarnateI gots one thang to say, And it won't take long, But JESUS done BEEN here,took a GOOD SHIT and GONE.My Jesus spells nothing wrong.

Here 'tis:

Wild Thing

you make my heart sing

you make everything groovy

wild thing

wild thing I think I love you

but I wanna know for sure

so come on & hold me tight

I love you

wild thing

you make my heart sing

you make everything groovy

wild thing

(ocarina solo)

wild thing

you make my heart sing

you make everything groovy

wild thing

I think you move me

but I wanna know for sure

so come on & hold me tight

you move me

wild thing

shake it shake it

wild thing

Not much to it, huh?

ocarina@aol.com

Subject: Re: ...Thanksgiving Poem...

From: DNUSKEY1@CONCENTRIC.NET (Dave)

Date: 1996/12/01

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rmuns@primenet.com (Reuben Muns) wrote:

>"C Toby" <ctoby@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>>"Busking?"

>>Enlighten, please

>I think a busker is a street musician -- a guy who sings and/or

>plays a musical instrument with a hat or guitar case for

>receiving money the passers-by toss in. There's a couple of guys

>who call themselves the Cambridge Buskers who give concerts that

>are extremely entertaining. One plays a small accordion and the

>other various instruments (flute, ocarina, tin whistle, etc.).

>They give some marvelous imitations of symphony orchestras.

>Reuben

busk (busk) v.i. <busked, busk-ing>

1. Chiefly Brit. to entertain by dancing,

singing, or reciting on the street or in

a public place.

[1850-55; prob. < Polari < It buscare to procure,

get, gain < Sp buscar to look for, seek (of

disputed orig.)]

Derived words

--busk'er, n.

Dave

Subject: Re: ceramic wistle

From: Andrew Werby <drewid@lanminds.com>

Date: 1996/12/20

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lawhite <lawhite@tstonramp.com> wrote:

>i am a ceramics student and my instructor has assigned the class to make

>a wistle. i have tried for three days and cant get it to wistle.

>please help me <:)

[To make a ceramic whistle, commonly known as an ocarina, the main thing

to keep in mind is that it works by splitting a concentrated stream of

air with a sharpened edge. This means that you should construct the

initial air channel so that some of the air goes above, some below the

edge. The rest of the ocarina functions as a resonating chamber. This

enclosed hollow vessel may be pierced with holes which vary the pitch

when uncovered, the more being open the higher the tone produced. Build

the basic form first, then let it dry to leather-hard before you try to

make it work. Ocarinas can be purchased in music stores if you want a

model to copy, but once you can make it whistle almost any shape will

function as a resonating chamber. There are numerous examples from South

and Central Ameri of clay whistles in the forms of birds and

animals.]

See the art of Andrew Werby: sculpture, jewelry, and graphics.

Browse the "techniques" section for information on various art processes.

Link to places on the web with information useful to artists.

Be the first on your block to know what "juxtamorphic" art is!

Andrew Werby - United Artworks

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Subject: Re: Improved, fast page-up page-down

From: kyle_jones@wonderworks.com (Kyle Jones)

Date: 1996/11/29

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Please don't make scroll-in-place the default. scroll-up and

scroll-down have a reasonable and predictable programmatic

interface. If the cursor is within the next-screen-context-lines

overlap zone, it won't be moved. Otherwise it will moved to the

beginning of the closest line within the overlap zone.

Remembering old cursor positions are what marks are for.

scroll-in-place's features are not worth breaking old code. If

you only knew how many times "VM scrolling bugs" have been

reported only to turn out to be bugs induced by scroll-in-place's

redefinition of scroll-up. If it's made the default, I think

I'll just throw myself out a window and hope I come back as a

ocarina salesman.

"Please don't fuck with the standard commands. If you're going to

change the semantics, give it a new name and retain the old one

for applications that expect the documented semantics."

-- Doug Gwyn

Subject: Re: Mailcrypt in 19.14 won't decrypt a message

From: kyle_jones@wonderworks.com (Kyle Jones)

Date: 1996/11/30

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> Invalid function: (macro . #<compiled-function (from

> "vm-misc.elc") nil "...(2)"

Something in mailcrypt is calling a VM defined macro. When

conpiling a procedure call, the byte-compiler needs to know

whether it is dealing with a macro. If the macro is defined at

compilation time the code will compiled correctly. Otherwise you

get an error like the one above when Emacs encounteres the

unexpected macro definition at runtime.

mailcrypt is generating this error because the person who

installed it did not load vm.elc or set up load-path so that

Emacs could find it. The installation instructions warn that the

code may not compile correctly if you don't set load-path

properly. Clearly the warning goes unheeded by many, which is

why this question has been asked so many, many times.

Anyone want to buy an ocarina?

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Subject: Learning the ocarina

From: muzart@mail.total.net (Michel Desroches)

Date: 1996/10/01

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Just published a new booklet, 32 pages: "Learning the ocarina - method

for beginners", price Can$ 7.95 i.e. app. US$6.00

More information is available at:

http://www.total.net/~muzart/isbn080.html

If you wish to start at the beginning of our catalogue, forget the

"isbn080.html"

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Subject: Re: Name that instrument From: pvallado@waynesworld.ucsd.edu (Paolo Valladolid)Date: 1996/09/06Message-ID: <50pp7n$2ua@mowgli.gilman.com>Newsgroups: alt.music.pat-metheny.moderated[Subscribe to alt.music.pat-metheny.moderated]

[More Headers]> Isn't an ocarina sort of an football-shaped instrument about 4" long with> finger holes and a mouthpiece drilled into it?Yes. I have one myself. The double ocarina, btw, is more donut-shaped.Paolo Valladolid

Subject: Re: Worst solo of all time

From: davidbarnett@aristotle.net (David N. Barnett)

Date: 1996/10/27

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randylong@aol.com (Randy Long) wrote:

>The Trogs - Wild Thing - lead on a picolo.

That's not a piccolo, it's an Ocarina. You know, the "sweet potato"

flute.

--dnb

Subject: Italian Ocarinas

From: gpacch@line.net (Giorgio Pacchioni)

Date: 1996/10/10

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Giorgio Pacchioni and his Italian ocarinas

I am pleased to offer you my handicraft (handmade) terracotta Ocarinas, endowed

with a highly professional quality. These are copies of historical instruments

made by the best ocarina makers from Budrio's School as: Donati, Mezzetti,

Vicinelli. They are copies of instruments of the best makers of the Budrio'

school of ocarinas builders: Donati, Mezzetti, Vicinelli. The strong

points of my

production, which has been, by now, adopted by all the Ocarina players in Italy

an d abroad, may be listed in the following way:

Intonation : Stable and at 20 cent. under 440 hz. (which is necessary to

make the

Ocarina play perpetually as tuning instrument when it is warm and not cold).

Timbre : Round, mellow and very clear. Tuning of its holes: Careful. Fingering :

Classical (as during the 19th Century) and with double holes in the first

opening

(C-C#). Shape : Classical, as in Budrio's tradition (near Bologna) in the 19th

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Subject: Re: What is 'sweet potato'? From: moosemeat@halcyon.com (Moosemeat)Date: 1996/10/09 Message-ID: <moosemeat.634.003A6BD4@halcyon.com>Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking[Subscribe to rec.food.cooking]

[More Headers]>> Hi experts!>> >> Please tell me what is 'sweet potato'?>> A Sweet Potato is the slang name for an Ocarina which is a musical instrument played by blowing into it and fingering the various holes to produce various notes. Kind of like mouth to mouth resuscitation only more fun.Moosemeat:

Dear Collective,

Probably by the time this message appears on the list, someone will have

already answered this, but "Iron John" was based on the fairy tale "Iron

John" by the Brothers Grimm. It was about a wild man that was captured

in the forest who was the color of rusty iron, and the story focused on

the king's son, who freed the wild man in order to retrieve the golden

ball that had fallen into the wild man's cage. The little boy couldn't

stay at the castle after doing that, so he rode into the forest with

Iron John. Then he failed at his assignment of protecting Iron John's

gold, so he had to leave there as well. So he had to go out and find

his own way, with the promise that he could always come yell for the

help of Iron John. With difficulties of course, he goes and makes

himself into a great person, with no one suspecting that he was the

king's son all along. I don't know the moral of the story, but that was

where the song came from. As you can tell, the song is not ONLY about

the fairy tale, but just as I don't know what the fairy tale was trying

to say, I don't really know what the AV song is trying to say, either...

Love,

Marie

Main Entry: oc戢斟i搖a

Pronunciation: "ä-k&-'rE-n&

Function: noun

Etymology: Italian, from Italian dialect, diminutive of oca goose, from Late Latin auca, from Latin avis bird -- more at AVIARY

Date: 1877

: a simple wind instrument typically having an oval body with finger holes and a projecting mouthpiece

1whis暗le

Pronunciation: 'hwi-s&l, 'wi-

Function: noun

Usage: often attributive

Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hwistle; akin to Old Norse hvIsla to whisper

Date: before 12th century

1 a : a small wind instrument in which sound is produced by the forcible passage of breath through a slit in a short tube <police whistle> b : a device through which air or steam is forced into a cavity or against a thin edge to produce a loud sound <a factory whistle>

2 a : a shrill clear sound produced by forcing breath out or air in through the puckered lips b : the sound produced by a whistle c : a signal given by or as if by whistling

3 : a sound that resembles a whistle; especially : a shrill clear note of or as if of a bird

Main Entry: 1flute

Pronunciation: 'flüt

Function: noun

Etymology: Middle English floute, from Middle French fleute, from Old French flaüte, probably from Old Provençal flaut

Date: 14th century

1 a : RECORDER 3 b : a keyed woodwind instrument consisting of a cylindrical tube which is stopped at one end and which has a side hole over which air is blown to produce the tone and having a range from middle C upward for three octaves

2 : something long and slender: as a : a tall slender wineglass b : a grooved pleat (as on a hat brim)

3 : a rounded groove; specifically : one of the vertical parallel grooves on a classical architectural column

- flute損ike /-"lIk/ adjective

- fluty or flut搪y /'flü-tE/ adjective

Main Entry: fip搆le flute

Pronunciation: 'fi-p&l-

Function: noun

Etymology: origin unknown

Date: 1911

: any of a group of wind instruments (as a flageolet or recorder) having a straight tubular shape, a whistle mouthpiece, and finger holes

glass ocarina used for dimension travel from/to almost any

location to/from the Crossroads

ocarina musical instrument, can be enchanted, moves

you from Crossroads to forest and vice versa

Clayzeness Whistleworks

LE FAVORIDE O UR LE BEST-SELLER EST LE MINI-OCARINA. USÉ COMME PENDANT, IL EST TRÈS PORTATIF, IMMÉDIATEMENT MANIABLE TOUTES LES FOIS QUE LE MUSE HEURTE. LE TABLEAU MODÈLE DOUBLE EN TANT QUE TRÈS BIEN SCULPTENT. CHAQUE OCARINA EST FAIT À PARTIR DU GRÈS DE HIGH-FIRED, EST TRÈS DURABLE ET IMPERMÉABILISE, ET VIENT AVEC DES INSTRUCTIONS COMPLÈTES. OCARINAS SONT UN DES INSTRUMENTS MUSICAUX LES PLUS ANCIENS. ILS SE SONT DESSINÉS À BEAUCOUP PAR LES SIÈCLES ET AUJOURD'HUI SONT PRODUITS PAR BEAUCOUP DE GENS. AVEC PRESQUE QUARANTE ANS D'CExpérience COMBINÉE DU MÉTIER, NOUS SENTONS NOS GRADES DE TRAVAIL AVEC LE MEILLEUR. LES CANNELURESTRANSVERSALES DE PORCELAINE DE O UR SONT LES POÉSIES DE TEXTURE QUI ONT ÉTÉ COMPARÉES À TOTEM POLONAIS ET ' LONGTEMPS, CANVASES MINCE. CHACUN EST UN PLAISIR INDIVIDUEL À L'COeil AUSSI BIEN QU'CÀ L'COreille. UN ACCORD D'CAccès: NOS OCARINAS, BIEN QUE PAS DANS UN LANCEMENT PARTICULIER DE CONCERT, SONT ACCORDÉS AU JEU UN " DO-RE-MI ". LES CANNELURES TRANSVERSALES DE PORCELAINE SONT DISPONIBLES DANS UNE CLÉ FONDAMENTALE DE " D " OU DE " G ". LE TEMPSET/OU LA DISTANCE DE S HOULD GÊNENT UNE VISITE AU MARCHÉ D'CEndroit DE BROCHET QUE VOUS ÊTES HEUREUSEMENT ENCOURAGÉS À ÉCRIRE AUX USA UNE NOTE, DIRE AUX USA CE QUE VOUS LE VOULEZ ET ENVOYEZ AVEC DE L'CArgent APPROPRIÉ (AJOUTEZ LE TAXE DE VENTE 8,3% SI NOUS EXPÉDIONS AUX ADRESSES DE L'CÉtat DE WASHINGTON) À: CLAYZENESS SIFFLENT DES TRAVAUX P.O.BOX 783 MUKILTEO, WA. 98275 1. MINI-OCARINAS ($18,00 plus s&h $1,50) poche portante de songbook et de coton incluse. TORTUE DE ROUE DE MÉDECINE Un symbole de Lakota pendant la vie curative et longue. KOKOPELLI Des glyphs de roche de Hopi, la légende l'a que le CORN-DANCE apporte l'abondance. TSAGAGALAL Peinture bien connue de la roche de l'état de Washington, ELLE DES MONTRES de OMS, offre la protection ÉTOILE Réminiscent d'une petite opale, la tribu de Hopi indique une grande histoire au sujet " de l'cÉtoile BLEUE. " POISSONS Oui, vous pouvez " TUNE-A-FISH. " DU-JOUR Celui que l'" MUSE " dicte pour le jour. 2. TABLEAU OCARINAS MODÈLE songbook du s&h $25... $30... $35... ($3.00) inclus. PETIT...par manque de meilleurs mots, la taille d'un grand citron, Paisley formé (fonction suivie par forme) SUPPORT...idem, la taille d'une orange. GRAND...idem, la taille d'un pamplemousse. 3. CANNELURES TRANSVERSALES DE PORCELAINE (tablature $50 de s&h $5,00) et instructions de soufflement incluses. CLÉ d'" D "...bas " D ", plus près d'une cannelure de concert. une clé plus commune de la CLÉ...A de " G " pour une cannelure folklorique.

EL FAVORITODE O UR EL MEJOR VENDEDOR ES EL MINI-OCARINA. GASTADO COMO COLGANTE, ES MUY PORTABLE, INMEDIATAMENTE PRÁCTICO SIEMPRE QUE EL MUSE PULSO. EL VECTOR MODELA DOBLE COMO MUY BIEN ESCULPE. CADA OCARINA SE HACE DEL GRES DE HIGH-FIRED, ES MUY DURABLE E IMPERMEABILIZA, Y VIENE CON INSTRUCCIONES COMPLETAS. OCARINAS SON UNO DE LOS INSTRUMENTOS MUSICALES MÁS VIEJOS. HAN TOMADO A MUCHOS DIMENSIÓN DE UNA VARIABLE CON LOS SIGLOS Y ESTÁN SIENDO PRODUCIDOS HOY POR MUCHA GENTE. **time-out** CON CERCANO CUARENTA AÑO COMBINAR EXPERIENCIA EN ARTE, NOSOTROS SENTIR NUESTRO TRABAJO FILA CON MEJOR. LAS FLAUTASTRANSVERSALES DE LA PORCELANA DE O UR SON LOS POEMAS TEXTURAL QUE SE HAN COMPARADO A TOTEM POSTES Y ' DE LARGO, CANVASES FINO. CADA UNO ES UN PLACER INDIVIDUAL AL OJO ASÍ COMO AL OÍDO. EL TEMPLAR DEL COMBATE: NUESTROS OCARINAS, AUNQUE NO EN UNA ECHADA DETERMINADA DEL CONCIERTO, SE TEMPLAN AL JUEGO UN " DO-RE-MI ". LAS FLAUTAS TRANSVERSALES DE LA PORCELANA ESTÁN DISPONIBLES EN UN CLAVE FUNDAMENTAL DE " D " O DE " G ". EL TIEMPOY/O LA DISTANCIA DE S HOULD OBSTACULIZAN UNA VISITA AL MERCADO DEL LUGAR DEL LUCIO QUE A LE ANIMAN FELIZ QUE ESCRIBA A E.E.U.U. UNA NOTA, DECIR A E.E.U.U. LO QUE USTED LO DESEA Y ENVÍA CON EL DINERO APROPIADO (AGREGUE EL IMPUESTO DE 8,3% VENTAS SI ESTAMOS ENVIANDO A LOS DIRECCIONAMIENTOS DEL ESTADO DE WASHINGTON) A: CLAYZENESS SILBAN TRABAJOS P.O.BOX 783 MUKILTEO, WA. 98275 1. MINI-OCARINAS ($18,00 más el s&h $1,50) bolsa que lleva del songbook y del algodón incluida. TORTUGA DE LA RUEDA DE LA MEDICINA Un símbolo de Lakota para la vida curativa y larga. KOKOPELLI De los glyphs de la roca de Hopi, la leyenda lo tiene que el CORN-DANCE trae abundancia. TSAGAGALAL Pintura bien conocida de la roca del estado de Washington, ELLA LOS RELOJES del WHO, ofrece la protección ESTRELLA Evocador de un ópalo pequeño, la tribu de Hopi cuenta una gran historia sobre la " ESTRELLA AZUL. " PESCADOS Sí, usted puede " TUNE-A-FISH. " DU-JOUR Lo que el " MUSE " dicta para el día. 2. VECTOR OCARINAS MODELO songbook del s&h $25... $30... $35... ($3.00) incluido. PEQUEÑO...para la carencia de palabras mejores, la talla de un limón grande, Paisley formada (función seguida forma) MEDIA...ídem, la talla de una naranja. GRANDE...ídem, la talla de un pomelo. 3. FLAUTAS TRANSVERSALES DE LA PORCELANA (tablature $50 del s&h $5,00) e instrucciones que soplan incluidas. CLAVE... " D baja" de " D ", más cercano a una flauta del concierto. un clave más común del CLAVE...A de " G " para una flauta popular.

4. The Ocarina is located in the Dream Shrine in Mabe Village. You will need the Power Bracelet and the Pegasus Boots to get it.

5. The locations of the songs are as follows:

The Ballad of the Wind Fish - you will need to see Marin to learn this song. Talk to her and she will teach it to you. If you have just beat Level 7--Eagle's Tower and you can't find her, she is located on the way to Level 8. You will find her out on a bridge. Fire your Hook Shot and that will rescue her. Once she leaves you can find her back in Mabe Village in order to learn the song.

Manbo's Song - to reach Manbo you will need to swim up to the cave that is west of the entrance to Level 4. Enter it and Manbo will teach it to you.

The Song of Awakening - to obtain this song you will need to head south from the entrance of Ukuku Prairie. Jump the rows of pits to enter the Signpost Maze. Here follow the signs exactly and a set of stairs will appear. Head down and Mamu will teach you the Song of Awakening for only 300 rupees (ouch!).

THOSE WERE THE DAYS by Ginger Baker and Mike Taylor

When the city of Atlantis stood serene above the sea,

Long time before our time when the world was free,

Those were the days.

Golden cymbals flying on ocarina sounds,

Before wild Medusa's serpents gave birth to hell

Disguised as heaven.

Those were the days, yes they were, those were the days.

Those were their ways, miracles everywhere are they now?

They're gone.

Those were their ways, yes they were, those were their ways.

Those were the days, yes they were, those were the days.

Tie your painted shoes and dance, blue daylight in your hair,

Overhead a noiseless eagle fans a flame.

Wonder everywhere.

Chorus

FLICKER

by X-Jazz

When a fire flickers

it zealously flutters

like a graceful ballerina

in the hymn of ocarina

at dawn, it shimmers

with the wind, it banters

for what seemed eternal

under a great cellestial

it glides like an angel

and maneuvers like a damsel

then kisses our night halfway

as it solemnly fades away

#1: USE OCARINA (or whistle) FOR A SUBBASS: The General MIDI standards folks didn't think that 64Hz sweeping jungle/dub subs were critical (but "Blown Bottle" was???) but "Ocarina" played in the lowest octave will usually do the trick very nicely. -UseNet Midi Talk

"A report in the London Daily News of an ocarina concert at the Crystal Palace in 1874 enthuses that the ocarinaists 'played a selection of operatic morceaux with a perfect skill and execution'. This group were known as the 'Mountaineers of the Apennines' and performed in London, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Lisbon and Rome. The group included Cesare Vicinelli, one of Budrio's finest ocarina makers and the enterprising brothers Ercole and Alberto Mezzetti. Ercole settled in Paris to make ocarinas and Alberto stayed in England to patent and sell his brother's ocarinas, to write tutors and to develop ocarina playing in Britain." -attributed to David Liggins

http://www.banquet.co.jp/honya/newtop.html

http://www.banquet.co.jp/coba/top.html

February 27, 1998

WHAT IS AN OCARINA?

We all know by now that the long awaited game, Zelda 64, is not

the game's true name. It is truly entitled Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I

must give praise to Nintendo for making this move, for this "blank

64" game titles have got to come to a stop! Alright...the name

sounds better and cooler, but...uhh, Ocarina? Well, according to

NP, an Ocarina is a flute that is smaller and more of a roundish

shape. Of course, since this is Zelda we are talking about, it is

also magical! How do you get this item in the game, Zelda: O of

T? Well, as far as I have heard, you have to collect three spiritual

stone. These stones may be the triforce, or some other

reoccurring object from the previous Zelda, but I just do not know

the specifics. Also in Zelda: O of T news, Nintendo Chairman

Howard Lincoln has stated that the game will be out definitely

before the end of '98. [I am praying this is the US realease!] And,

of course, for all you that have been totally left in the dark...Zelda's

Game pak will indeed be gold like the original NES version, and I

am looking forward to see that puppy! Well, that wraps up the

Zelda news for now, but more news is released weekly, so check

back real soon! - Reported by Scott Man (E-in-C)]

http://www.digital-ages.com/news/2-27-98e.htm

http://www.ocarinaexpeditions.com/

Ocarina Expeditions is an outdoor adventure company that has been working in Costa Rica for the past five

years through travel agencies and wholesalers here, and in Europe. Our agreements with European

wholesalers as well as personal contacts in the country enable us to offer unique tours at the lowest

possible prices. We use only the best bilingual naturalist guides that are dedicated to serving our guests.

As a small operation we can assure the best personal service, prices, and unique tours in the Costa Rican

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Our tours are designed with both the wilderness and local communities in mind and are therefore conducted

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About Ocarina

Let's talk about the various kinds of ocarina played by "The Goose" players. Although a six-hole ocarina is still popular

worldwide, "Aketa Ocarina" a ocarina manufacturer in Japan successfully remodelled an Italian 10-hole ocarina to a 12-hole

one and sold it with reputation. As such, many ocarina manufacturers in Japan followed "Aketa Ocarina" and began to produce

12-hole ocarinas. Therefore, nowadays, 12-hole ocarinas are mostly liked in Japan. We use 10-12 hole ocarinas.

"The Goose" mainly use the ocarinas "Cantare Ocarina" manufactured by Mr. Takao Hiramoto, a famous ocarina producer in

the City of Kasama, Ibaragi Prefecture.

Cantare Ocarina is well-known for its refined sound and quick responce and meets with the image of us, sound creaters. Had

not met the "Cantare Ocarina", "The Goose" would not have been organized. We use "Contrabass in C" made by an Italian

manufacturer "Menaglio" as the lowest sound instrument. This ocarina is famous for its deep low sound. The level of sound is

equal to that of a great bass recorder but the range of sound is nine somewhat narrower. However, in concert with high tune

ocarinas, it shows an overwhelming rason d'etre among the instruments.

The Ocarinas used by "The Goose"

Piccolo in C

It produces the highest clear tone.

Alto in G

Meets light music. Could be played solo.

Alto in F

Meets melancholic music. It covers a high tone area in our group.

Tenor in C

Most versatile in the tune of inner part and lied.

Bass in G

Peculiar in unique sweet sound. In charge of inner part in ensemble.

Bass in F

Produces warm sound. Also in charge of inner part.

Bass in C

Has the same tone level of a tenor recorder.

In charge of inner part and outer voices.

Greatbass in F

Generally considered the lowest tone ocarina.

Produces a special sense of existence in ensemble.

Contrabass in C

The lowest sound instrument among the ocarina family.

Attractive in its deepest low sound.

Piccolo in C - Greatbass in F made by Cantare.

Contrabass in C made by Menaglio.

HOME http://www.ask.or.jp/~zipangu/goose/index2.html

http://zinnia.umfacad.maine.edu/~sharkey/ocarina.html

Goose girl

dreamed of an ocarina

of clay the color of Mediterranean waters,

a plump fish she held to her lips

to kiss, and filled its bladder

with breath that escaped through holes

the pads of her fingers pressed.

Anemones puckering, small mouths speaking,

she covered, uncovered their call from the sea

and since then has carried

through bustle of days and evenings

the music of ocarina.

Lee Sharkey

Check the Texas Musicians Network Industry Directory, we have a listing

of Open Mics. Go to http://www.lonestarnetwork.com

Robert Tait wrote:

> Where and when are open mic nights in Austin? Mostly intrested in

> listening, but if the standards are low enouough I might break out my

> Ocarina...

> thanks

> rt

World War, 1939-1945.

"Retreat from Moscow" p. 23-24 in True Comics, no. 14 (July

1942) -- SUMMARY: Nazis in retreat use ocarinas to signal

each other.

1. World War, 1939-1945--Comic books, strips, etc. k.

Moscow. k. Nazis. k. Ocarinas. Call no.: PN6728.1.P3T7no.14

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Complex Whistles Found to Play Key

Roles in Inca and Maya Life

by William J. Broad

From the New York Times : Science Times

Section

Tuesday, March 29, 1988, page C-1

Much more than toys,

the whistles were genuine

musical instruments

Experts are teasing thousand-year-old secrets from

the clay whistles, ocarinas and flutes of the ancient

Americas, discovering that these old musical

instruments are surprisingly advanced in their

construction and tonal qualities.

Once dismissed as toys, these objects are now seen

as ancient American wind instruments that were

vital to the life of the Inca and Maya peoples,

including the ruling elite.

Recently in Belize, a rich lode of instruments was

unearthed from a royal tomb, underscoring their

importance.

The new appreciation of the pre-Columbian

instruments is being fueled by recent discoveries of

musical objects at archeological sites in Central and

South America and by increasingly rigorous

analysis of such instruments for their cultural

significance and mechanical action.

Indeed, some are turning out to be so complex that

they have no counterparts in modern instruments.

Army of Researchers

In the last few years, a small army of physicists,

archeologists, anthropologists, musicians,

ethnomusicologists, and craftsmen have probed

these ancient wind instruments with tools, X-rays,

stethoscopes, stroboscopes, tape recorders,

frequency meters and spectrum analyzers.

In one case, a tiny ocarina, which is generally more

complex than a whistle and wider than a flute,

generated much interest because it had an

impressive ability to produce 17 notes. X-rays

showed it to have three hidden chambers that gave it

unusual versatility.

The earliest pre-Columbian clay instruments, found

on the coast of present day Ecuador, date from

thousands of years B.C. The art of instrument

making flourished unti the time of the Spanish

conquest in the 16th century, and is still practiced,

though with diminished skill, by descendants of the

prehistoric Americans.

"People think of these objects as signaling devices

or playthings," said Sue Carole De-Vale, head of the

systematic musicology program at the University of

California at Los Angeles. "That's wrong. They

were clearly musical instruments, used for ritual and

pleasure."

Few written records were left by the people who

made and played the ancient instruments, forcing

modern experts to glean tantalizing clues about their

use from the objects themselves, their sounds,

Spanish accounts and ancient Indian murals. For

centuries, pre-Columbian instruments were

generally regarded as curiosities that were valued

more for their shapes than for their ability to

produce music. Every major museum had a few,

although curators sometimes did not realize they

were musical instruments or know how to make

them come to life. Moreover, the instruments

revealed little about the people who used them since

the objects had often been removed from their

cultural context by grave robbers and curio dealers.

"Because the remains of musical instruments have

been found sporadically, and rarely in

concentration, they've been written off as another

small artifact," said Norman Hammond, a professor

of archeology at Rutgers University who specializes

in Maya music.

New discoveries, however, are raising their status.

At a Maya burial site at Pacbitun in Belize, in

Central America, Paul F. Healy and a team of

archeologists from Trent University in Ontario

recently unearthed a rich lode of more than a dozen

flutes and ocarinas buried beside Maya rulers.

After 1,000 Years, Sound

"Such instruments are seldom in this kind of

context," Dr. Healy noted. "They may have been

used by musicians in the funeral procession. One of

the more interesting moments was when we blew

them for the first time in a thousand years."

The figurines shaped like men have lower tones than

the female ones. The Belize site also produced two

unusual hybrid instruments that were half flute and

half rattling maraca.

To date, thousands of acoustically distinct clay

instruments have been found in Mexico, Belize,

Guatemala, Honduras, Columbia, Ecuador and Peru.

The instruments include examples shaped like

animals, human figures, and imaginary beings.

Musically, they include double, triple, and

quadruple flutes, which can produce more than one

sound at a time.

Experts say such musical diversity starts with clay,

which is deceptively simple. It can be modeled,

flattened, rolled, pinched, coiled, pressed, scored,

shredded, pierced, stamped, extruded, cut, spun or

cast in molds. When fired to high temperatures, it

becomes hard as stone.

The ease with which clay can be made into musical

instruments allowed the cultures of the pre-Hispanic

Americas to advance musically at a time when

Europe was experimenting with wooden recorders

and metal flutes. As with most musical instruments,

the clay ones evolved gradually as generations of

craftsmen drew on a growing store of knowledge.

All whistles, as well as recorders, ocarinas and

pipe organs, work on the same general principle: A

smooth flow of air encounters some obstacle that

causes it to break into vortexes, which give rise to

the oscillations heard as musical tones.

In most whistles, a carefully constructed passage

forces a smooth flow of air out a slit onto a sharp

edge on the side of the instrument, breaking the

airflow into vortexes that spiral away from and into

the instrument. The larger the inner chamber, the

deeper the tone. Finger holes in the chamber

effectively change its size, allowing the production

of a series of different notes.

One of the first scholars to study the ancient

American instruments systematically was Samuel

Martí, a Mexican anthropologist. "There can be no

doubt that pre-Columbian music reached a level of

development comparble, perhaps superior, to the

contemporary cultures of European and Asiatic

origin," Dr. Martí wrote in his 1978 book, "Music

Before Columbus," published by Ediciones

Euroamericanas in Mexico City.

For nearly two decades, Dr. Hammond of Rutgers

University has been studying the origins of Maya

music in Belize, especially the whistling figurines of

Lubaantún, an ancient Maya center. Although the

flowering of Maya culture occurred between A.D.

200 and 900, some complex musical instruments are

far older. Dr. Hammond noted that one early Maya

ocarina, dateing from 500 to 600 B.C., is advanced

enough to play the first five notes of the tonic scale,

that is, do, re, me, fa, so.

"Five-note ocarinas are scarce," he said, "and

something that matches an Old World scheme is

vere unusual." The intervals between notes vary

widely, in theory being nearly infinite.

He added that some of the instruments were far from

sophisticated, the intervals between their notes

being "a shade off."

Another scholar, Dale A. Olsen of the Florida State

University school of music, has concentrated on

analyzing the musical instruments of the Tairona of

northern Colombia, one of the first Indian cultures

wiped out by Spanish conquerers. Dr. Olsen studied

400 of their clay whistles, ocarinas and flutes.

Playing in Harmony

With an electronic stroboscope, which uses flashing

lights to analyze the frequency of sound waves, Dr.

Olsen measured the pitch of the instruments with

great accuracy. He found that many had similar

tuning systems, implying they could be played

harmoniously in concert with one another.

"They were probably vital for conjuring up the

supernatural, for protection, for religion and

culture," he speculated. "The care that went into

making these instruments suggests that they were

more than diversions or toys."

Perhaps the most intensively studied instruments of

all are the enigmatic whistling bottles of Peru,

which were made continuously for two thousand

years, starting around 500 B.C. Hundreds of these

have been found in fanciful shapes that are built

upon single bottles or double ones joined together.

These bottles have been split open, X-rayed and

analyzed. Yet their function remains a mystery.

When partly filled with water and moved about or

emptied, they produce a weak whistling sound. But

if their spouts are blown directly, they produce a

sharp tone.

Bottles' Harmonic Structure

Stephen L. Garrett, a physicist at the Navel

Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., and Daniel

K. Statnekov, a whistle musician, analyzed the

harmonic structure of 73 of these clay bottles from

nine cultures that inhabited the coasts and highlands

of Peru, including the Incas. Using spectrum

analyzers and frequency meters, they tested the tonal

ranges and found that the bottles of the same cultures

had similar frequencies, while those of dissimilar

cultures had different ones. This led them to

challenge the conventional wisdom.

"The bottles are generally regarded by

anthropologists as utiliýÿÿÿ

tarian liquid containers with

the whistle providing an amusing method of

venting," they wrote in The Journal of the

Acoustical Society of America. "We are suggesting

an alternative interpretation of the bottles as having

been specifically produced as whistles."

In an interview, Dr. Garrett said their revision was

driven by the fact that curious sounds were

produced when two or three bottles of the same

culture were blown simultaneously. Their higher

notes would interact to produce deep, lower notes

that could not be tape recorded but only heard in the

ear, where the effect is generated, he said. "The idea

is that these low-frequency sounds were important

in religious rituals for changing states of

consciousness," he said.

Spiritual Quest

Indeed, Mr. Statnekov has recently written a book,

"Animated Earth," published by North Atlantic

Books in Berkeley, that recounts a spiritual quest for

meaning in his life that was triggered by blowing

ancient Peruvian bottles. "Fifteen years ago I was

living the life of country squire," he recalled. "Then

I bought a whistle at auction and it changed my life."

While many experts doubt his notion that old

musical instruments have a special ability to

stimulate spiritual growth, they agree that these

objects are a good way to probe the past, revealing

the ancient civilizations of the Americas to be

surprisingly advanced in ways not previously

appreciated.

"Music is a measure of cultural complexity," said

Dr. Olsen of the Florida State University. "It adds

the other layer of knowledge about their social

intricacies and achievements."

On 8 Jul 1998 17:00:27 GMT, brewerpaul@aol.com (BREWERPAUL) wrote:

>I just bought a beautiful wooden ocarina (don't laugh!)--it's volume won't hold

>up like my whistles in a session, but it sounds great and is really pocket

>sized (Mountain Ocarinas-- 1-888-4-a-flute I have no commercial interest:just

>a happy customer).

>Anyway, I've been trying to find good tunes which fit the instruments short

>range of one octave plus2: any suggestions? Paul Troy NY

Andy's Front Hall (and I assume Elderly) used to sell a series of

books intended for ocarinas and Pbowed Psalterys that has a lot of one

octaves tunes in them. Try them.

Andy Alexis

Sacramento, CA. "The Pearl of the Central Valley"

ndlxs@no-spam.calweb.com

You know what to do...

Subject:

Re: Masterclasses/beginners

Date:

Tue.19 May 1998 14:00:00.

From:

Baz Jennings <baz@ocarina.demon.co.uk>

To:

rec.crafts.pottery

You may be interested to pass on the information to your Students'

Notice:

or even arrange 2-day courses on campus (Availiable soon at Key West USA)

.Try<A

HRF="http://ocarina.demon.co.uk">ocarina originators</A>

baz

Masterclasses in Ocarina craft London

A studio lesson for Susan (photo)

Dutoit.....Class of students from Brent (GCSE)(photo)One day basic lessons are

availiable in Britain.April

98 to January 1999.<BR>They include all information about tools,making

.materials and techniques to enable the student to continue

independently.The classes are intensive with video support.The cost is

�60. -including registration fee.

Masterclasses in Ocarina craft overseas 1999 to

2542 (after buddha)February and March .Early next year Masterclasses are

planned in Thailand at Chiang Mai and possibly another venue in

Asia.The cost

for (not Thai) students will be $550 for two weeks including firing of

their products.Due to the short time avaliable to many students,a

beginners one week intensive is availiable for $300.The course

is planned to be suitable for

Beginners,Craft Teachers and Educators,also Makers who wish to improve

and possibly become associates licensed to use our current systems and

free finger patterns and Music.

Discounts are availiable for groups and for early bookings (Before

September). The classes will be during February and March 1999.A

deposit of$100 dollars constitutes an early booking and the Balance of

$400 may be paid at the start of the course-$50 discount.I plan to

circulate the above info by e-mail and if you have time,I will be

grateful fo any suggestions/Links you can advise me of.

In the past 30 years I have made approximately 50,000 pottery ocarinas

by hand in a large variety of sizes and shapes.I hope I will eventually

have one of the largest and most informative ocarina

web-sites.<"ocarina

originators"http://www.ocarina.demon.co.uk

I have experience of teaching my craft since 1969 and my most recent

student:

Werawut Apinynurack

(Craft Potter,Chiang Mai.)

I taught to make the Basic type in only 6 days. despite the language

difficulty (I learned some Thai expressions for teaching).

I aim to teach my craft at suitable venues abroad in the months of

February and March.

It is my intention to return to Thailand February / March 1999 to teach

private students for 2-4 weeks.

I am offering my services to Thailand Students at a special low

residents fee .I have

contacted sources of information for students at Phitsanulok and

Chiang Mai Universities I am also investigating setting up a

production facility near Chiang Mai,so input from local craft

workers,artists or organisations will be recieved with thanks.

Subject:

Fw: Flute Information

Date:

Sat, 16 May 1998 01:09:55 -0700

From:

"Sandi and Richard Schmidt" <clayz@gte.net>

To:

"Baz Jennings" <baz@ocarina.demon.co.uk>

-----Original Message-----

From: Clarence Bakken <bakkenc@gunn.palo-alto.ca.us>

To: clayz@gte.net <clayz@gte.net>

Date: Wednesday, May 13, 1998 10:02 PM

Subject: Flute Information

>Richard,

>I am a high school physics teacher in Palo Alto, California. While in

>Seattle for a wedding recently, I was at Pike's Market and talked with

>your sales girl about your ocarinas. She was very pleasant.

>I am working on a workshop that we are going to present to groups of

>high school physics teachers on the "Physics of Music". They in turn

>will work with other groups of physics teachers in a nation-wide

program

>sponsored by the American Association of Physics Teachers. I would

>to present some good physics of the ocarina to them, and possibly have

>one or more to demonstrate.

>Can you help me with some of the theory behind the tuning as a function

>of the hole size? I don't have any basic theory to explain the variety

>of notes one gets just by varying this parameter. Does location of the

>holes have anything to do with the subsequent notes?

>Are you interested in possibly including some written information in

our

>program? If it has scientific merit, we'd love to have it as part of

>the workshop.

>Thank you for any information you can get to me. I enjoyed your web

>site and look forward to following up on some of the links.

>Clarence Bakken

>Gunn High School

>Palo Alto, CA

Baz Jennings wrote:

> Clarence,

> My friend John Taylor told me that another friend told him that the

> subject was illustrated in a early hours (bbc open

> university?)programme in the 70's by a mathmatician named

> (coincidentally!)John Taylor.As a scientist the beeb will roll out the

> records quickly for you,most kind if you let me know your results,as

> currently,the only way I can think of arriving at a formula is to

> measure my ocarinas and crunch.You may like to try this at Gunn. Ido

> overseas and home workshops as you may have already noticed.:-)

> baz

> There is x.relation of fipple window size to edge plane (mid-line

> through

> total surface area),1/66 is a guess and varies acording to what timbre

> volume

> and range is ordered.Larger ocarinas can be 1/125

> y.holes closer to the fipple must be larger to counterbalance

> pressure loss when tuned for equal breath (dynamic)tones.

> z.Proportional 4 hole octave tuning is linked (only

> retrospectively)with Fibonacci's proportions and is slightly

different.

> ? I suspect the physics of the ocarina to be as easy to

express

> as

> quipu knots math-but good luck.

> Barry

Just thought I'd share with you all that the other week, I walked past a

stall at a craft market here in Melbourne which was selling ocarinas (I

think there were both wooden and metal ones, but I forget)

I was going to buy one, but it seemed like a damned expensive in-joke.

I am also unsure whether the booklet which came with it had instructions

for re-inventing the device, and I didn't fancy taking to such a purchase

with a drill without some degree of certainty.

Thought you'd all be happy to hear about that.

(For any Melburnians who want an ocarina, the stall was at the market

at Southbank a couple of weeks ago, on the part stretching down St

Kilda road near the Arts Center. Don't know whether the stallholder

goes to that market regularly or anything, sorry)

Paul Cowan minotaur@union4.su.swin.edu.au

"I think, therefore I'm right." -- Hugo Rune, *They Came and Ate Us*

-- by Robert Rankin

Obviously those who are unsure about the nature of the instrument "ocarina"
have no children  recently acquire the N64 video game, "Zelda: Ocarina of
Time"...hum...ZZZZZelda....ZZZZZevon....
Check out the Zevon Fan Web Page at
This is a solo tour. 
 Mr. Zevon has been spotted with a piccolo in his pocket.  
Is the ocarina in the kazoo family?

Alternate Finger Hole patterns:
(Best Finger Hole Spacing)
11 11/32	1/2 
10 3/32		3/8 
8 26/32		5/16 (up 3/8 from penciled CL for ergonomics)
6 16/32		3/8 
5 9/32		1/2  (up 3/16 from penciled CL for ergonomics)
4 0/32		1/4
0		end of flute 
OR
(for those with fewer drills)
11 20/32	3/8 
10 5/32		3/8 
8 18/32		3/8 (up 3/8 from penciled CL for ergonomics)
6 13/32		3/8 
5 18/32		3/8 (up 3/16 from penciled CL for ergonomics)
4 0/32		1/4 
0 0/32		(end of flute)

For a cork frot this D flute use a TEE cork from a bottle of jug wine
(or get some new TEE corks from a home-brew shop) and cut the plastic
knob off with a sharp knife.  Wax the cork by rubbing with a candle. 
Bevel the pipe inside on the embouchure end and push the cork in
flat-end-first.  Use a dowel to push it down till the face is just above
the embouchure.  Adjust position to make third octave D, E & F# match an
electric organ (cork doesn't affect lower octaves much).


Now, hole sizes and dimensions for a G flute from 1/2" schedule 40 PVC
pipe.  This is a white pipe, relatively easy to find and VERY cheap, but
it MUST be stamped schedule 40 - there are other wall thicknesses so be
sure you check!  You're on your own as far as recommendations for
ergonomic rotations on this flute - as long as the distance from the end
of the flute is as specified you can move holes up or down from the
drawn pencil line so they're easier for your fingers to reach.  This is
a smaller flute better for small hands than the D flute.  For a cork,
use 5/8" wooden dowel - cut a chunk off, get the position right (see
above) and mark the dowel at the end of the pipe, cut dowel on mark,
apply glue and ram dowel in flush.  

Embouchure:
15 17/32	3/8 (center 3/16 below pencil CL, angle to pass 1/16 above pipe
axis)
finger holes:
8 26/32		5/16
8 23/32		5/16
7 20/32		5/16
6 14/32		5/16
4 28/32		5/16
3 32/32		7/16
2 19/32		5/16
0 0/32		(end of flute)




Last but not least, A D piccolo / fife, a dandy little 12" ear-splitter
from 1/2" CPVC pipe.  This pipe is a little hard to find but it's just
right for this instrument - it's sort of an off-white/light-beige and
the chunk I got has a bunch of printing on it clearly identifying it as
"1/2" and CPVC - this is NOT PVC pipe but it's a lot cheaper than any
fancy chunk of foreign wood!  I measured it as 0.080 wall, 0.472 bore. 
Use a 1/2" dowel sanded down or else some heat-setting modeling clay for
a cork.  I think finger holes all on the drawn CL are probably best for
this instrument.

10 22/32	3/8 (center 3/16 below pencil CL, drill straight toward pipe
axis)
finger holes:
5 23/32		5/16
4 32/32		5/16
4 4/32	  	5/16
3 12/32		7/32
2 20/32		3/8 
1 26/32		7/32
0 0/32		(end of flute)


A little note:  the dimensions given above were calculated using a
spreadsheet from Prof. Peter Hoekje; I jimmied the embouchure distances
on the D flute experimentally because the calculated locations didn't
seem to work for me and he told me the calculated location was
approximate anyway.  All the designs will come in VERY close to correct
concert pitch if drilled as specified using pipe as specified.

Hail! Joseph!Enjoyed your response and am going to forward it to Paul in case he doesn'tcheck the postings.Couple of things. As Paul is a European I didn't, and assume he doesn'tconsider early to be 1000 years. Think they have Universities older thanthat. I was considering early to be 2 to 3 thousand. I think the Romans hadlathes but am not sure. Can't believe they didn't but I have been wrongseveral times.On the subject of "stock" would imagine some early flutes (whistles) werepottery. I've seen some very old "musical wind instruments" that were madefrom clay. Course clay tends to last longer than wood and would probably bebetter represented. Wonder if bone wasn't also well represented even backin the Paleolithic. Bet whistles have been around a long time.You might be right about the lathes used for flutes being suborned for gunbarrels. I still remain skeptical. I know the nice octagon barrels werehammered around a core as they didn't have the capability of drillingstraight and by that time I am sure they were drilling flutes. I just findit hard to believe that an industry to produce flutes was a driving forcein lathe development. I find it easier to believe that the lathes were usedfor something else primarily and flutes just happen to benefit. I knowflutes are expensive (I've a niece that plays) but are there and were therereally enough needed to drive lathe technology? I suppose the early craftsmen were probably "instrument makers" or generaltechnician and flutes were one of their product line. I'm more comfortablewith that scenario and they would certainly have refined lathes and latheapplications but I hesitate to label them "flute makers".I looked the "love flute" up. Wow, would I have been in trouble. I canbarely play the radio. Guess I would have had to be one hell of a horsethief or something. I was wondering how old the love flute was and if itwas existent in most NAmerican Indian tribes? I never found a reference toits age and the tribes that were mentioned were not that old (least not bypaleo Indian standards but I bet the Clovis boys had some kind of whistle).Speaking of which I find it interesting that the American Indians neverinvented the lathe (least I've never seen a reference to one). Wonder ifthe lack of a useful wheel is accompanied by an absence of the lathe. Ifsuch is the case one could postulate that the lathe is the result of aheavy draft animal!Thanks for the enlightenment.JackJr.Joseph S. Wisniewski < wrote in article<367D1C51.3BABF760@earthlink.net>...> "Jack R. Sims Jr." wrote:> > > > Good luck but I am not sure that early woodwind instruments were made> > on a lathe.> > In europe, they were. Lathe turning of woodwinds goes back at least 1000> years.> > > I think it much more likely that they were shaved round> > with a blade of some type (we have spokeshaves, anybody heard of a> > windshave?) or formed from natural round stock.> > This is still common over much of the world for primitive folk> instruments. Bamboo (naturally round and hollow) is a common woodwind> material in Asia and South America. Naturally hollowed (termites!!!)> branches and small tree trunks are used in Australia for the Digeridoo,> and in Africa. > > For orchestial instruments in the western world, you want a stability of> tone and a smoothness of the bore that only comes from the hard woods> (boxwood, rosewood, ebony, grenadilla, cocus) and they are not found in> naturally hollow forms.> > Although some cultures do not shave the wood round at all. Both the> Czekoslovokians and the South Americans often leave the outside square.> > As far as the "wind shave" it is common in many cultures (again the> Native American fltues come immediatly to mind) to take a piece of solid> wood, split it, chissle out the bore in both pieces, glute or bind it> back together, then carve the outside round. Since this is done by folk> instrument makers for their own use in very, very small quantities (a> Native American makes but one love flute to court his mate, a shepherd> carves a new shepherd's pipe every 5-10 years when the old one wears> out) there are no special tools such as a "wind shave". Just an> ordinary knife and too much time on one's hands.> > > I would think that the main difficulty and early> > rotary tech application would have been made to the hollowing process> > not the outside forming process.> > This, at least, is true. Hollowing is done on the lathe. The pilot hole> is bored with a shell auger or lamp auger. The bore is then adjusted and> tapered. On a bow lathe, it's usually done with a spoon auger, because> that only cuts a small portion of the bore at one time. On a powered> lathe, you use a tapered reamer, which cuts the whole bore in one pass. > > > You might want to look at early horizontal> > drills rather than bow lathes. If this is the case one might assume> > (perhaps incorrectly) that the necessity for and design of tools to> > create the bore of early firearms might have spilled over into the> > manufacture of woodwinds.> > Or, you might assume, much more correctly, that the tools used to craft> early woodwinds spilled over into firearms. Although, there's no easier> way to make a nice woodwind bore (or pilot for something that will be> reamed to a taper) than with a modern, carbide head gun drill.> > On the other hand, there are military woodwinds (fifes) that happen to> have straight bores, the same size as gun bores. Coincidence?> > > As you continue your research I think you will find that while music> > might be the "food of the soul" that technology is driven by the need> > to produce food for the belly or implements of war.> > Nope. It's the sex drive. Many cultures created early woodwinds as> courting rituals. Look up the thousands of years of tradition of the> native American "love flute".> > > Always check those areas first and> > in reverse order when looking for the introduction of technology.> > In your case you will probably find that some gun barrel borer was> > doing a little moonlighting on woodwinds!> > Nope. We buy our own gun drills, and feed them with 90 poinds of> compressed air through the oil hole, feeding horizontally through a> hollow tail stock or bearing rest on the lathe. > > Take it easy. > > Joe> > Joseph S. Wisniewski - Make flutes, not war.> >

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From: "Joseph S. Wisniewski" <

Many people have posted about ocarinas (ocarini??)

The ocarina is one of the most interesting woodwind instruments. It's
not quite like your flutes, recorders, oboes, clarinets, etc. or any
instrument with a tubular bore. We're used to instruments where the length
of the bore, and the position of the holes is what controls the tone. In
the ocarina, it's a function of the volume of air enclosed and the size of
the holes.

Imagine a weight of some sort, hanging on a spring. You nudge the weight,
and it keeps bouncing up and down. If you make the weight lighter,
(without changing the spring) the spring force now can push and pull the
weight up and down faster, and pitch goes up. Mathematically, that's how
the ocarina works. The volume of air in the ocarina body has mass and
springiness, so it gets to be the whole weight/spring system in one.
Opening more holes reduces the trapped weight of air (and the holes act
like more springs), so the pitch goes up.

One of the neat things about a simple mass/spring system is that it wants
to vibrate in a pure sine wave (no harmonics or overtones) unlike the
flute, recorder, etc. which have complex overtones (the dark and bright
sounds, etc). Of course, this means the ocarina really doesn't overblow
into a second or third register. Some ocarinas (ocarinen?) are built with
the air chamber as close to round as possible (these are usually four or
five hole ocarinas) to really emphasize this. Other ocarinas have a more
teardrop (torpedo or sweet potatoe) shape so that there will be some
flute-like bouncing back and fourth of sound vibrations along the long
part of the instrument, to give them a more flutish tone. (teardrop
ocarinas often have more than five holes).

Now, about that variable pitch ocarina idea. You can use a membrane (or
even fill the instrument partially with water) to change the pitch, but
the holes will no longer be the right sizes for a proper scale: they also
must change. Picture an ocarina where the holes have little irises (like
camera lenses) at each hole to vary tuning as needed.

All this talk of weights, dangling from springs, suggestively bouncing up
and down, up and down, sounds like something that should be on the other
list. ;-)

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From: lebret@argonet.co.uk

Joe,

You have missed quite a few posts on this subject.

As one of the few Internationally renowned and recorded ocarina
soloists<<GG>> (Flutenet passim) a note or two!!

What you say is of course, as always, scientifically correct, but from
the practical point of view, Flutenet members may not know that an
application of what you say IS the variable pitch ocarina. I own several
from the early and mid-19th century on which it is possible to play in a
number of keys due to the peculiarities of the ocarina, where air
displaced is a factor in pitch. Metal slides were inserted in the soloist
models to displace varying amounts of air...like a plunger...and they work.
The name "ocarina" is even more interesting. It is Italian for "little
goose"...oca being "goose". In China the name is "hsuan" which is "little
goose egg", so maybe Marco Polo mistranslated the word.
Ethno-musicologists believe that "our" flute originates from this. A
piece of cane with closing nodules at each end (jointed bamboo)and a
blow-hole in the middle was one of the earliest "flutes". Two holes then
appear to have been drilled or burnt either side of the sound producing
hole. This form of instrument found its way to India where some genius
thought to move the blow-hole to one end and add more finger holes and,
more importantly, open up the lower end so that it was no longer a
vessel flute, and could overblow at the octave, 12th, octave, 10th etc.

Adrian
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out who Yablo really is and tries to void the contact. Meanwhile yablo sues and

is allowed to feud with Bischoff. Bischoff uses Yablo to try to undermine the

Austin-McMahon angle by saying "Well at least Yablo is man enough to accept my

challenge."

The next week the two have a "Ocarina bloodbath" match in which the first

person to bust the opponent open with the ocarina wins the match. Yablo kicks

Bischoff in the nads, grabs the ocarina, pulls off his mask, and reveals

himself as Vincent Kennedy McMahon, Jr. Then he hits Bischoff right between the

eyes with the ocarina, which was loaded with a brick. Bischoff gets the sense

knocked back into him and starts to plan his bookings.

There, my two cents.

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I would bet that DVV played most instruments, in private. He seems likethe sort of person who if he saw an instrument lying there he'd pick itup and try to play it. I had an uncle who could play the ocarina. Itwas, in fact, a blue swirl ocarina, but it wasn't five miles long. Inever understood it. It looked like a cross between a potato and arecorder and had a haunting tone. I couldn't get any sound out of it. Icould see the connection, shapewise, as to how it would come up in IWanna Find A Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go, althoughthat song is obviously about a lot more than yams, potatoes and ocarinas. I wonder if Don played the ocarina. He would have been anolder pre-teen, I figure, around the time that ocarinas were popular(although they were never all that popular ever.) s/michael

Baz Jennings wrote: Clarence, My friend John Taylor told me that another friend told him that the subject was illustrated in a early hours (bbc open university?)programme in the 70's by a mathmatician named (coincidentally!)John Taylor. As a scientist the beeb will roll out the records quickly for you, most kind if you let me know your results,as currently,the only way I can think of arriving at a formula is to measure my ocarinas and crunch.You may like to try this at Gunn. Ido overseas and home workshops as you may have already noticed. baz

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When you work, you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music.

Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Subject: Re: re: fingering for an Ocarina?

From: jack@purr.demon.co.uk (Jack Campin)

Date: 1997/12/25

Message-ID: <3070@purr.demon.co.uk>

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lutemann@aol.com (Lutemann) writes:

> Can anyone tell me how this thing ( the ocarina ) is played. It's got

> me stumped. There are three holes in the bottom which do what? I got

> a nice clay one for my 10 year old for Christmas and want to show her

> how to play it.

The basic principle is that all that determines the pitch you get is the

total cross-sectional area of open hole. Which holes are opened to get

there doesn't matter. It's a Helmholtz resonator.

There are two designs of ocarina. The Mexican type, which you have, takes