aahhhh! glad i got it intact, all the way from california. Still remember that day where i "Wasted"(acc to others ofcourse!) a whole day watching videos and theory abt ocarinas. a series of youtube videos really impressed me and so very much excited abt the whole concept to play a whole octave in just 4 holes! i have always been so much attracted to wind instruments esp indegenous ones.. besides i also own a butifully painted peruvian flute, which i bought it at Birmingham christmas market!
Hope to learn the basics of playing an ocarina soon! Once i get the fingering i shud be thru..and then i go scaring all my neighbours aound! yipppe! sheeer fun waiting ahead! ;)
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It will be fun and youtube helps a lot in learning such stuff.
I wonder what the source of motivation is. People who go to west (including one Mr M.K. Gandhi) try to learn classical instruments like violin, Piano, Guitar, drums, etc. Of course, they are expensive and require loads of musical knowledge. But I believe that there is some reason for choosing to learn an instrument that most of us have not heard of, that too from California!
I learnt Harmonica and I used to play it in college programmes and I am proud of being invited to play that in the chapel, where someone without the knowledge of music cannot enter. But I started to play that not because of passion, but to prove that I too can learn playing it.
But I had some reason to learn playing that. During an intercollege competition at Bishop Heber College, Trichy, one of my seniors was blowing a chinese Harmonica and I was eager to touch that. He drove me away in a inhuman way I got angry and bought a tiny practice piece. I practiced 4 hours a day to qualify myself. Of course we had our pro guitarist as well as our orchestra keyboardist to help me learn by hearing the notes they played for me. I believe that you also have a reason to learn playing this instrument.
By the way, how do you play it? By inhaling or exhaling or by both, like a Harmonica? I have a small suggestion: Don't ever give your musical instruments/camera to anyone.
hey yes!! its indeed amazing to learn n play new instruments.. and im more fascinated for wind instruements preferably indigenous ones....i already have peruvian flute and ocarinas mainly originated in some parts of chile and peru....helped a lot for indians to navigate in the woods..the one i have is just 5 holes...rather 4 holes...u only exhale..but its awesome to see how u can play a complete octate in just 4 holes :) i wish to show it to u when we meet next..! hey i also got myself a harmonica from poland ....pretty excited when i play it :D but is there any online material available.or can u spare some of ur knowledge sometime?
I had mentioned about my journey into Narmada valley in comment on a picture on the steep way down the hills. The adivasis in the valley live in very small groups and sometimes as individual families in 50 Sq.Km amidst the mountains and across the river. There is no electricity, no school, hostipital. They are Self-Sufficient and government is ignorant. They have indigenous medicines and indigineous solution for everything. If there is a meeting in the evening, how can they relay the message?
Simple, they play music with their own version of flute. We used to tune guitars precisely with a Korg unit. It is quite amazing that they have tuned their flute to precision with primitive tools. They have a tune for every occasion. When we went there they were about to meet for harvest festival (Just like pongal).
They played a particular tune for this occasion. They got replies also from distant places. It was totally dark while we were moving towards the rendezvous. I knew that we were surrounded my mountains, but I was totally unaware of the directions. It echoed throughout the valley. But the adivasis could pin point the location from which the music came (Actually, the one who gave reply had also started from his house and he was on the way. The ones who located them did not say where their house was, but exactly the location from which they were playing music).
So, while we enjoy music for sheer aesthetics, we cannot think of any other purposes of music (The inferences of therapeutic music are subtle). We also say that music communicates and captivates. But people who live with the nature
all over the world create music that really communicates. I assume that you have seen that picture in my blog-the youngster playing that flute. If not, checkout www.mirror-slap.blogspot.com
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