I was looking for a four hole ocarina because I wanted to play something but I don’t have much time. I also wanted an instrument for a medieval-renaissance LARP. I fell in love with these cuties. So much that I bought the green one for the LARP, this blue one for my three year old son to play (so he won’t try to use the green one) and the lilac one because it was too beautiful to leave behind.
My husband, who’s classically trained and passed seven years of violin at the official conservatory, was pretty impressed when he heard this cutie sound. He was expecting a toy, not a real instrument.
It IS a real instrument. A limited one in range, not even a full scale (I think it goes from do to la sharp), but an instrument none the less.
I think it’s wonderful if like me, you have tiny hands (I need a good 3/4 guitar), or to initiate children. I’ll try to teach my three year old how to use the holes on this, so he doesn’t use it as a whistle.
The booklet it comes with is very useful and includes a lot of songs. I don’t know many of them, but the ones I do were easy to play with the digitation notes.
This one is so good that it has made me want to try the seven holes celtic ocarina and the brown bird eight holes ocarina from the same company. I will try to make the most of these three before that.
I would buy them again, of course. I’d just rather not because I already have three and if I need to buy these ones again it means all three broke. I’d rather buy some more from the same artisan.
