Ode To Joy duet played with Bear Paw Ocarinas
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LEARN TO PLAY THE OCARINA!
Ocarinas are very ancestral instruments, perhaps tens of thousands of years old. 
Nearly every culture and society has had a vessel flute of some sort.  In their basic form, their origins date to stone age times, some of the earliest found in Central Africa.  For centuries, they have been part of the Global Music Culture, as a ‘hsuan’ in China, in France a ‘cou-cou’, and to Italy, we trace the word ‘OCARINA’ (‘sweet little goose’), now part of the international vernacular.  The Ocarina works on this principle: The airway in the mouthpiece forces a smooth flow of breath out of the slit, across the window and onto the 'lip',  or 'reed' of the Ocarina, causing the air to break into vortexes,  which gives rise to the oscillations heard as musical tones.  Finger holes in the chamber allow the changing of tones.  The Four-Hole Western Scale ("English Style") system we emulate in the Bear Paw Ocarina works because of 'cross-fingering'.  Follow along with the animation, you are on the way.  The scale chart below gives you the sharps and flats!

Notice "There are four holes of different size, each one slightly larger than the adjacent one ".  That is the elegance of simplicity, the wonderful marriage of science and art.  With the four holes, you can go from ‘do’ to ‘do’ and, by ‘SLIDING" your fingers gradually off the holes, cover each and every frequency between. With all the holes open, blow into the whistle only enough to make a clear tone, not too forcefully nor too timidly.  Now, cover the holes completely and slowly slide your fingers off while you blow, then slide them back over the holes. Now try it again and say "tu-tu" while you do it. Practice, Practice, Practice.  The tu-tu part is a basic wind instrument technique that will give you the  breaks between the notes.  If condensation builds up in the airway,  give it a blast to clear it.   

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