![]() ![]() The first song that I played in, I could see people looking at me, then turning to talk to others. I offered to play my ocarina on the songs, and after three weeks of practicing, I played live for the first time in front of an audience. When I entered High School, I joined the Key Club and on many of our outings, we have had opportunities to sing to those less fortunate, one examples was at a lunch for mental health patients around Christmas time. So I decide to share the ocarina with the world. I knew that if introduced to society it would be accepted as a beautiful instrument, not a novelty toy based on a video game. I listened to the first song I ever played on my ocarina and it makes me start to tear from time to time because I remember all the joys the first ocarina brought me, and the sorrows of losing it forever.Īfter buying my STL ocarinas, I realized that most of the world has never seen or heard an ocarina. When I hear someone playing the ocarina, I get a nostalgic flashback, not only of Zelda, but mainly of the first ocarina I had, the first time I played one, and the hear breaking destruction of my first ocarina. I was hooked from there, I bought a STL WPN Double, a STL Zelda replica, a STL Purple Clay Tenor C, and most recently a Maparam Alto C and Double Alto C. I had no idea what the qualities of a good ocarina were, I was used to my 6 hole songbird and didn’t know about sub holes, or airy notes, or any of the other things I consider standard when shopping, I just knew his sounded great and I wanted to sound like that. I loved his playing, and I watched more of his videos, his Ballad of the Windfish blew me away, and I decided I needed to get the ocarina he played. It was Docjazz4 playing the song of time on his Spencer Ocarina of Time replica. I became curious as to how to rest of the world viewed ocarinas, so I looked up ocarina on you tube, and found the video that began my inspiration that lasts until this day. A new songbird sweet potato ocarina of time extended range arrived at my house and I couldn’t lay it down. This reminded me of how much I loved that magical instrument, and gave me the drive to buy another. When it shattered on the pavement outside the school, the memories of how I loved to play it and the beautiful sound it made came back to me. It wasn’t the class that rekindled my love, it was the breaking of my first ocarina that did. ![]() I however remembered the ocarina I had and decided to bring it. Most kids brought in a recorder, or a cheap guitar. ![]() However one day, everyone was asked to bring in some instrument for music class. I almost lost my love of the ocarina entirely. The ocarina decreased in importance for me for a couple of years, I became distracted by my sports turning from little league to the middle school league. I received one and I was hooked on the ocarina, or so I thought. I fell in love with the game and as a result began to solicit my mother for a Zelda sweet potato from Songbird. My best friend once again introduced me to one of my passions, Legend of Zelda. The Zelda songbook threw me, because I had never played the game. I got my ocarina in the mail a few weeks later, accompanied with some songbooks. I had to get one for myself, he told me of the website and after begging and pleading my mom for a while, my first songbird was on the way. My friend let me play his ocarina, and it was one of the most simple instruments to play with the sweetest sound. I had always loved music, but between all my little league sports and school, I had no time for the more complex instruments that take years just to learn to play well. When he first played it, I fell in love with the tone, the way it sounds, and just the idea of a portable musical masterpiece. He ordered a pendant ocarina and was prompt to show it off to me. He stumbled across a website called Songbird Ocarina. The first time I heard of an ocarina was from my best friend, who played the Legend of Zelda. Let me first talk about the effect of the ocarina on me, when played by others. The ocarina is one of the most beautiful instruments I have ever heard. ![]()
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