IMO they’re absolutely adorable, but you must treat them with extra respect and charm, yeah?
phew… now that I’ve made my little lecture, let me rest my arse down. *crunch*
Oh, bloody wankers.
(sadly, a real-life experience &*(@^!$)
That ocarina’s met with a terrible fate, hasn’t it?
I’m an idiot, let me just declare that upfront.
Oof, my little flute is still hanging in there, but it does need some skillful gluing to get whole again.
Funnily enough, this kinda reminds of… “Trigger” I think it is? I.e. Willie Nelson’s much-maligned acoustic guitar, which somehow keeps hanging in there, year after year, lol.
With lots of help from Mark Erlewine (part 1 of 2) https://youtu.be/uhQuJTc5yFY
I’ve never heard an instrument described as ‘crunchy’ before
Guitars can sound “crunchy”. Usually it means heavy fuzz or distortion
And when you do, my friend?
Hoh boy…
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Is it pronounced Oak-arina or Ock-arina?
Awk-arina
i have this exact one, minus the stamp. it sounds great but it’s fairly heavy so i havent mastered how to hold it and play without hand fatigue. would lov to become proficient, i was inspired to get one after watching this rendition of Sadness and Sorrow. sooo beautiful!
They used to have ads for Zelda ocarinas in Nintendo Power all the time. Eventually I got one. Kinda low quality, but I enjoyed it.
Got a nicer one as an adult. But in trying to learn to play it, eventually found out that the pitch depends on the pressure in your breath. So it’s sad that it’s kinda impossible to use with other instruments, for me, since I’ll always be off key. Still a nice thing to play with!
Songbird Ocarina ran those ads. I still have mine. I absolutely jumped at the chance to get one. They’re still around and make a bunch of different models, but they don’t look the same. New ones are also more refined in general compared to their early days.
I really want Alec’s ocarina from Lunar Silver Star Story. Sadly. I’ve never found one for sale.
A Link to the Past had a “flute” that called a bird as a fast travel mechanic. The icon looked like a blue transverse ocarina but the in-game text called it a “flute.”
For some reason they based the next major console game in the series entirely around this instrument, correctly identified it as an ocarina this time, and ocarinas have officially been blue ever since. Having lived through the N64 era it’s hilarious watching people re-discover them.
Goes really well with a hookshot.
i could never do that dance right.
🎵 hey…ocarina…🎶
allright! allright!
