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08-21-2011, 01:58 PM
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well before playing bass my first love was the ocarina i still love playing them. i actually am working on incorporating the ocarina in one of my bands gigs. anyone else here play ocarina? |
08-21-2011, 02:02 PM
| | | | I own an ocarina. But I have not a chance to really play it. Its a 6 hole ceramic ocarina and it is a bass ocarina. I find it difficult to get a solid, fully colorful tone out it when running a scale. Perhaps that just comes with time in playing it. Perhaps it is a low quality ocarina since it is only six holes? I tried to research it, after buying, and I came across two things. Perhaps I should have gotten a soprano because that will handle melody better. And no matter how hard I search on the web for info on playing it... everything always relates back to Zelda: Ocarina of Time... That's cool but I would like to see something beyond that. |
08-21-2011, 06:14 PM
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08-21-2011, 06:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | | I dunno man, I dig it just fine, but it just screams "King Richard's Faire" or campfire songs more than rock and roll. Well, unless you live on the Shire.
Are you in a Celtic band? Not being pithy, just giving an honest opinion.
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08-21-2011, 06:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Vancouver, BC, CANADA | | | I own one but don't really play it. |
08-21-2011, 06:50 PM
|  | I'm gonna love and tolerate the **** out of you! | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Memphis/Knoxville TN | | | I own one. It was cool for about a month, but I quickly gave it up. It was incredibly hard to produce a good tone out of it. |
08-21-2011, 07:22 PM
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08-21-2011, 07:23 PM
|  | is, against all odds, still a scuba viking. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Alta Loma, California | | no matter what, you will never have an ocarina as cool as this guy's. Big Broccoli Ocarina:Angels We Have Heard On High - YouTube
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08-21-2011, 09:32 PM
| | | well i have played on stage before and no im not in a celtic band xD im in a psychedelic rock band. and hey the troggs had an ocarina solo in wild thing xD
here is a video of me playing on stage Mononoke Hime Live! - YouTube |
08-21-2011, 09:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Vancouver, BC, CANADA | | | That guy is SO awsome. He has so many videos with various hand mae ocarinas. |
08-22-2011, 05:44 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | My kids have ocarinas. I love playing them. Some produce good tone, some don't. Some do for me but not for them as I'm a woodwind player and they aren't. They can be very beautiful instruments if you get a good one and learn to manage your airstream to produce a good tone. Our funniest ocarina is the dinosaur. You have to blow in his hind end.
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08-22-2011, 06:12 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | | Yeah, obviously my comments were in jest and my ignorance to the instrument was showing, but it's a neat sound...your video was very good. I realize that abou Wild Thing and recognized it quickly... good luck in your integration into your band.
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08-22-2011, 09:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Boston MA | | | I have a few and have used them as looping drones in recordings. The best ones I have are human figures from the Andies...one is a head (med register) and one is a sitting guy playing pan-pipes. That one is almost lower pitches than audible, but recorded without the breath sound, it's haunting.
Ocarenas are amazing. Did you know Mic Karn used them in his solo recordings? | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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