Ocarina

Jun. 24th, 2021 12:29 pm
fiat_knox: silhouette of myself taken at sunrise (Default)
Last night, I repurposed a glasses case for my ocarina, Gloria.
 Ocarina case

The case, open to reveal my ocarina

Gloria, my ocarina, in her new forever home


I really should write more about how ocarinas have changed my life, or something.

fiat_knox: silhouette of myself taken at sunrise (Default)
 I began a new hobby in June this year, at the height of the lockdowns - mastering the ocarina. I bought a 7-hole egg pendant, a max range double ocarina which plays like a 6-hole English Style pendant, and a 12-hole Thomann C1 tenor ocarina in red. The latter is a plastic instrument, rather than ceramic, but it's been good for me since i received it on 2020-06-22.

(I'm buying another new one, an Elf's Ear ocarina from STL, 12-hole transverse, but that's a story for another day).

Within 24 hours of trying out the ocarina I have since come to call Big Red, I was already picking out my first tune by ear, from memory. The traditional Welsh song Myfanwy, by Joseph Parry (1875).

I had to pick it out by ear, because the singsheet for it - the tabs - were not available on the internet, or anywhere really.

Until today.

Behold.
Myfanwy, gan Joseph Parry

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