Author: Gnomon
Date: 2006-09-12 13:33
Ocarina child, I haven't seen an 8-hole ocarina like yours before. I've got charts for four different types, but this doesn't include yours.
Ocarinas are not very accurately tuned instruments, so it is usually necessary to treat the fingering chart only as a suggestion, and to experiment around it. It's possible that the chart I gave you will work for that blue instrument, even though it looks very different. It's also possible that the 10-hole version will work with a small amount of modification:
http://www.iol.ie/~jonmca/Ocarina/ocarina10.gif
Tch, sorry if that chart is not self explanatory.
1. Play the notes do re mi fa so la ti. Do you get a proper musical sounding scale? Then this is the right chart for your instrument.
2. Find out what the key of your ocarina is by covering all the finger holes and blowing reasonably strongly. This is the keynote. This is known as do. If you have a piano, find out which note this is on the piano and you will know the key of your ocarina. For example do = G. If you haven't got a piano, you'll have to get a musical friend who plays some other instrument to identify the note for you.
3. If do is G, then re is A, mi is B and so on.
If you've problems, e-mail me.
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