My First 12-hole hand-made ocarina

This is a monster of an ocarina! I made my first decent-quality 12-hole ocarina, and here it is! I hope you enjoy this, I made it specifically for Youtube.

I didn't use a mold, either. This was strictly hand-made.

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Music

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• ocarina
• DIY

[BendiStraw1]

It's an average-size sweet potato ocarina, dunno why you would say huge. Anyways good job on the ocarina, I know how fun making them can be! :]

I couldn't tell if it was made from ceramic clay or not, and if it was I couldn't tell if it was already baked. Did you eventually glaze it? It might make the ocarina a tiiiiny bit more lower pitched, depending on how many coats of glaze you put on it, but other than that it's not a noticeable difference.

[OcarinaTycoon]

@BendiStraw1 I hadn't done anything with it because later on, I made another one that sounded far superior to this one. And thanks for the tips, that was the largest one I made at that point in time. I now have a contrabass which hits an F2 (give or take).

[456weirdman]

well why make an orcarina when o found some for 10 dollars?

[OcarinaTycoon]

@456weirdman Because $10 is a price I would pay for a very low-quality one. When I was making and selling them, they sounded far better than the hand-made Peruvian ocarinas, and I sold them for roughly the same price.

Plus, it's never a bad thing to get into the arts and crafts of life.

[Dangu3574]

Hey guys I'm planning on making an ocarina. What clay do u recommend?

[OcarinaTycoon]

@Dangu3574 I recommend a Cone-10 stoneware for durability, or Cone 06 ceramic earthware for lower firing temperature.

[stopglobalswarming]

You should paint it like a blimp.

[456weirdman]

@OcarinaTycoon if you made it then you get get a 1 pennys worth of work

[khoraski]

@theworden01 the recorder and ocarina are both simpler wind instruments, but i do agree that they should not be compared. in my opinion, the ocarina sounds a lot more beautiful and, not only that, but it can provide a large range of notes.

i used to play the recorder when i was like 6 xD

i think i still have one laying around somewhere

also, cheers to OP. that's an impressive ocarina

[lalave2006]

@OcarinaTycoon this is amazing! oh and xBlade08Productionsx is a Baka! (im also leaning Japanese)

[Szirako1]

I made 3 ocarinas, and any of these worked. Congratulations your one is working.