What is ocarina?
The name "Ocarina" is used for two types of vessel flutes. The word "vessel" is used to indicate that the tool is not based on an extended tube. One type of ocarina is a hollow tool that is played through an extended mouthpiece and Guiseppe Luigi Donati was invented in the early 50 years. However, the name "Ocarina" also applies to any kind of vessel flute from around the world, including those who play breathing through the hole, rather than through the mouthpiece. These tools are considered to be the forerunner of Ocarina. They were made of stone, clay, wood, bones and with gourd or animal shells. In Latin America there were shaping that imitated animals, humans and birds, were popular. The flute vessel from the World has different tuning and different numbers of holes, but Donati tuned them to give a complete western -style scale and include up to 10 finger and thumb holes. Donati Ocarina is described as "egg -shaped eggs", "submarine" Ocarina and "sweet potato". Some of them have a very pointed end.
Some of Donati Ocarinas are in the museums of art, such as the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. But in Budrio, where Donati lived and worked, we find the Budrio Ocarina Museum, where he presents the examples of both Donati Ocarinas, as well as those created by other famous creators. There is also a collection of equipment for the production of OCARINA.
Today Ocarina still has a large amount of diversity. May have individual or more chambers; be made of plastic, porcelain, clay or metal; And they have four to twelve holes, sometimes similar and sometimes different sizes. Ocarina employs the use of techniques such as half hole (partly, rather than a completely obscuring hole to deliberately change the playground) and cross fingering or branched fingering. OCARINA is classified according to the playground, similar to recorders, such as sopranino, soprano, tenor, bass, etc.
Several other manufacturers have created other OCARINA innovations. John Taylor, EnglishAn, created a four hole hole (sometimes plus plus inch hole) in which the holes do not have the same size. This model has become very popular and is sometimes referred to as "English ocarina". American David Hannauer added a second inch hole to Taylor's model.
Ocarina even came up with modern music recordings. In addition to the show available by Ocarina Entersembles, Ocarina features were in popular songs such as "Wild Thing" by The Troggs and in film audio accompaniment, such as Road to ... with Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour and Settle by Ennio Morricone.