Does anyone else also play ocarinas. I’ve got several different-sized Langey ocarinas and think the tone is enchanting. Can you recommend a source of tunes that stick to a strict one octave range. Scottish bagpipe music seems curiously inappropriate on a sweet-toned instrument. My challenge at the moment is learning to get my head round the ‘Duet’ ocarina and getting used to playing duets by myself
If you go to Susato’s website, they have a couple of nice one-octave tune books, specifically for instruments like the ocarina. Two Book Two and Medieval Songs, I think they are called. I have 'em and LOVE 'em. They are cheap, too.
I’ve got the range, and they play well.
The plastic D Alto is excellent for the jacket pocket.
For those moments…
I’m an ocarina fan too, but tend to go more for playing whatever is inside my head on them. . .new-agey sounds. Thanks for all the posts with the suggestions!
I played Wabash Cannonball on a blue plastic C alto sweet potato with the rest of the Palouse Unitarian Universalist Folk Orchestra and was complimented by the bass guitarist for getting such haunting tones out of a squirt gun. I also have one of those minute Susato ocarinas that sounded rather nice playing the Boar’s Head carol.
I nearly cried when oputbid by 11 p on ebay for the torpedo ocarino recently.I really wanted one after hearing one.
On 2002-07-05 22:22, Rod Sprague wrote:
I played Wabash Cannonball on a blue plastic C alto sweet potato with the rest of the Palouse Unitarian Universalist Folk Orchestra and was complimented by the bass guitarist for getting such haunting tones out of a squirt gun. I also have one of those minute Susato ocarinas that sounded rather nice playing the Boar’s Head carol.
I too have a plastic sweet potato. That’s the first time I heard The Wabash Cannonball described as haunting.
Listen to the jingle,
the rumble and the roar
As she glides along the woodland
through the hills
and by the shore!