A note about the ocarinas: The Zelda ocarina from Songbird is actually a four or five hole ocarina, pretty much the same as those novelty pendant ocarinas and things like that. It has a more complex fingering pattern and a shorter range compared to an ocarina with more holes. I would suggest searching ebay for a "sweet potato" ocarina. A real sweet potato ocarina should have around nine or ten holes, and is very easy to play. It is similar to a piano: a piano moves up the scale as you press each consecutive key, and a sweet potato ocarina moves up the scale as you remove your finger from each consecutive hole. I found an old Austrian sweet potato ocarina on ebay for really cheap.

If you are into the Zelda thing, a sweet potato ocarina looks just like Link's instrument in the game, though perhaps not shiny and blue. I actually got interested in the ocarina as a result of the game. The music in the game was so good that I bought the soundtrack album called Hyrule Symphony, which features a string orchestra and a real ocarina. I was entranced by the real ocarina's sweet sound (much better than the synth version in the actual game), so I bought one. I could already pick out simple tunes on the piano, and I found that that basic skill transferrred over immediately to the ocarina. It's a real blast to play.

If you don't mind having an ocarina that doesn't look like Link's, I reccomend the Mountain Ocarina. It IS ugly (unless you buy the $80 hardwood model), but it sounds great and the fingering is as simple as a sweet potato ocarina.

Voracious, you're absolutely right on all counts. Geek that I am I had to get the (five hole) Zelda ocarina and the range is limiting. The fingering wasn't too hard to learn, though, and now I'm pretty adept at it. The high notes are still difficult to produce accurately without squeaks. FWIW, the Mountain Ocarinas often advertise their squeaklessness.

You're also right that the hardwood Moutain Ocarina is much less ugly than the others, but I still think its straight up and down design is less poetic than the sweet potato style.

The point of the Mountain Ocarina's isn't looks though, it's based on quality of sound, ease of use, and comfort. :)

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i really like wut u said. i love the zelda games and i do own a zelda ocarina. it really can change stuff in real life.... or its just coincidential... but playing it takes you to another place.

what notes on the ocarina for Sarias song i need to know the buttons on the N64 controller instead of the notes. im stuck in the game right now that's the first song to learn...

I don't get it!!!!!!! I bought an ocarina, but the music is in numbers. BUT there is no music that has numbers on the web. thismy ocarina->

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! OOO !

! OOO !

!________________ !

It does not look like this.

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! O O !

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I need help. the music i find is for the square one.(above) i not even found one picture of my kind of ocarina.

sorry, mess up,(above)

I still want help.

Hey all i want any zelda music u can get on piano, and im not all that great so i hope it's easy XD. i need the notes plzz plzz thx!

i have got a traditional 12 holes ocarina, but i cant find the zelda music for it any where, all iget is music for the 4 hole ocarina! im gettin annoiyed now! so will some plz help me oout!!

i cant find anyt music at all where did you find it?

oh and i am the biggest zelda fan

when i grow up i want to name my kid link

I'm a Zelda fan, and got an ocarina purely cause i thought they sounded good on the game.

they are soooo easy to learn, and yet you can play Beethoven on 'em....WOOO!

Cool, that sounds really neat. I've been looking into getting an Ocarina lately, at first I was gonna get one of those, but then I decided I'm gonna to get a higher quality one, and paint it to look like the Ocarina of Time myself.

Eh, the one thing that bugs me is that people try to use material items and tattoos and that sort of thing to try and prove that they're the biggest Zelda fans. But I think that's bull. Who cares if you can afford to buy something others may not be able to? Really, I don't see how what amount of Zelda items you have can make you a bigger fan. It just makes you a bigger spender.

Eh, I better end my rant here, before it gets going, and long. Hope I didn't offend anybody, and I'm not accusing anybody here of doing it, it's just something I notice a lot, and that bugs me for some reason.

My boyfriend just got me an Austrian ocarina. It has 8 holes on top and 2 on bottom. And I can not find a single site to tell me about it or how to play it. I'v looked and I can not find anyhting...Does anybosy know a goos site that I can go to that might tell me a little something about my ocarina? Please!

well i just ordered one

and now im looking for pages that have some songs

cuz ino ill learn all the songs in those books fast!

cuz ive been researching ocarinas and this one is suppose to play easy and is cool looking. the mountain ones sound nice but look like crap. I got the fairy extended range Ocarina case and bookII.

so if u can help i would like to no were i can get some music

unfortunately there seem to be very few comprehensive ocarina sites out there. mine has 8 holes, 7 on top, one on bottom. what few tabs i have found only show 4 holes (pendant type). ah the troubles of zelda music in real life

Well I got an ocarina a while ago because I was hooked on Zelda (and still am). It was a ten hole sweet potato ocarina from Anita's Ocarinas and I love to play it. Although I can only play the Song of Time and Zelda's Lullaby I am still intrested in ocarinas and even tried making my own(big failure). Of course I couldn't afford all the tools because i'm only 14 so I used that crappy oven bake stuff and it sucks.

(By the way the songs I know I just sort of goofed around untill I thought it sounded right)

I forgot to ask in the comment above that if anyone reads this that makes ocarinas, how do I fire them i mean I read all about making and molding them but where would I get a kiln? Well that's all I had to say and plz comment on what I just wrote.

is this thread still going or not?????

still don't know, I think you'll have to do some research to learn more about what you want to know. Why don't you contact one of the makers of ocarinas linked above?

i have had a zelda ocarina for around a year right now and i think it's the best eva!

can any1 help me get songs for my zelda ocarina i really need songs i only have ones frm songbook they sent me. Ive finished Zelda Ocarina of Time bout 10 times now greatest game ever! i also can't wait for twilight princess it's gonna be awesome!

Whoops my bad but while I'm here I might as well say something. I know some stuff about ocarinas and over the years that I have been looking up ocarinas in all different styles I have found problems with Mountain Ocarinas because all they're advertising is how great their ocarinas sound and their sqeak free ability. The problem with this is that that's all they are, a sound. Ocarinas made of clay aren't just instruments but works of art and that is what people have been doing for thousands of years. Hundreds of years ago different tribes would have different tunings so they could tell who was playing and from what tribe. They made instruments (like ocarinas) to sound good but if they were making something that sounds beautiful why not make something that looks beautiful too. Now I don't really like ocarinas that are in the shape of something like a sculpture with sound but I do like the fact that ocarinas are the greatest instruments because they are the perfect combination of art and music and that is why (I think) ocarinas have been around for so long.

And I know that's a lot and seems deep or whatever for a fourteen year old but that's how I feel and I thought I should say it.

Well i think u got ripped off

i am 13 and i have a real original wooden ocarina as a heirloom and i want some music for it but i can find any cuse it is only for those silly 4 hole ones.

can any1 help me

mail ur reply

Well it's me again and I have nothing against wooden ocarinas, I just think that most of them are too plain looking to be considered art like most clay ones (although their primary purpose is to make music). Now I have never owned a wooden ocarina but what I am talking about is the art portion of them right now and although they sound nice, that's only half of what an ocarina is.

Now the only problem with clay ones I think is that they break more easily than wooden ones as I found out when the one I bought from Anita's ocarinas was knocked off the table that I keep it on and shattered on the floor. That one was a ten hole sweet potato and I couldn't play more than two songs on it (not because it was hard to play but because I couldn't find music for it other than the sheet of music that I wouldn't even want to play that came with it (and I even lost that sheet almost as soon as I got it). Luckily I had tried to extend my collection by ordering the ocarina of time from songbird ocarinas a few days before so at least I would still have one ocarina but unfortunately I ended up only replacing the one I had broken. The one I had bought from songbird sounds good and because it had more interesting songs in it's songbook I wanted to learn them and now i know seventeen of the 26 songs in the songbook including plenty of zelda songs.

As soon as I first played zelda I was hooked but when I found out that ocarinas were real instruments my interest switched to them. I bought my first ocarina when I was nine in 2000 and that was the one from Anit'a ocarinas that broke recently. Over the years I have had four ocarinas, three were clay and one was plastic. Two of the clay ones broke and I lost the plastic one but I didn't care about that one because it was just a cheap toy. Well that's about it and I'm sorry to the person above that I couldn't help with his problem because to only ocarina I own now is a five hole but someone else should try to help him.

I thought I'd mention this because I was just reading a comment near the top of this page that said the songbird ones are like cheap novalty pendent ones. Okay there are a few different types of ocarinas and although there are novalty ocarinas out there these don't include them. So there is the sweet potato style which was invented in Italy by a guy named Guissepi Donatti (probably spelled it wrong).This one was popular in the U.S. for a while but that was along time ago but when Zelda came out it regained it's popularity. This is probably the most well known ocarina in the world and although ocasionally has four or five holes it's more likely to have 8 or 10.

Then there's the pendent style which is not a toy or cheap novalty but a real ocarina used just as often as the sweet potato, possibly more because it's easier to make. This one is probably mistaken for a toy because it has less holes than an average sweet potato so how could it play an octave but this style usually uses the four hole English style hole system which uses cross fingering too play a full octave.

Then there is the inline ocarina which has all the holes in a straight line so that with alot of practice can be played with only one hand.

The materials used in making ocarinas are different from most instruments, they are clay, wood, metal, plastic and stone. Although most toy ocarinas are made with plastic you shouldn't asume that just because an ocarina is plastic it is automaticly a toy, there are ocarinas that are made with plastic that are concert quallity, just do some research on plastic ocarinas to see if the one you want to buy is not a toy.

I was just wanting to know if anyone knows the Notes for ANY fo teh zedad songs, or knows of a site that I could get them off of.

Thank you all very much.

Derek

I am the biggest Zelda fan in the history of Hyrule. I have the N64 OoT, the collectors edition for gamecube, and today im going to a music store to get an ocarina (I hope it's like the OoT, I didnt see it yet). And eventually ill get the image from the hylain shield tattooed on my shoulder, a triforce tattooed on my hand and Shiek's symbol on my chest. Shiek pwns (even though hes actually Zelda in disguise.)

i am new to the whole ocarina thing and i just baught the plastic model of the mountain ocarina i cant wait till it gets here just woundering though can you play the zelda songs on it???

so i was at the kansas city rennaissance festival yesterday and i bought a shalimar and family ocarina....its a soprano pendant ocarina. its clay and 5 hole small and the sound....its quite annoying....i bought the book tunes from zelda and majoras mask and i tried to play it....the soound is soooooo horrbile on the little soprano ocarina ..its so high pitched its annoying lol my ocarina has the triforce on it but it doesnt put out the kind of sound neededto properly re- create the zelda music.the only song that sounds good on it is the lord of the rings shire song lol.....im hoping to buy the ocarina like what you bought ...its really cool ...maybe i llg et it soon cause i have a song book that will work with what the zelda one plays ....lol hope so

I am the largest Zelda fan known to man (and several monkeys and 1 Dolphin) I am the heir to Zelda. I look just like her. I act like her a lot. It's kind of scary...

I love link and zelda i got the triforce painted on my hand and every one liked it so i got a tattoo of it for real it hurt like heck and i own a zelda ocarina

I have a few ocarinas and i thought it would be cool to try to make my own because all these sites i saw had instructions on how to make one but because i don't have a kiln(oven used to bake clay items)i had to try making one out of oven bake clay instead of normal clay and so when i tried it, it didn't go together like in the pictures because i couldn't use some of the things used to stick the two sides together because that kind of glue wouldn't harden in a normal oven so i decided to hold off on that untill i decide i really want to spend money on buying a kiln. So i have been looking for some ocarinas made of other materials like metal, plastic and wood that i could buy instead(just for a change). The ocarinas i have found that are made of plastic are ussually just toys and even if it's not a toy it just feels like one to me. The metal ones i have found are very few and i have only found ones made of silver that look more like jewelry than an instrument. So i have turned to wooden ones because so many people seem to make wooden ones but most people don't make wooden sweet potato ocarinas but instead make ones more like inline or pendent style ocarinas and the ones i have found that are the sweet potato style are way more expensive than the ones i have bought in the past. If anyone knows where i could buy some sort of small kiln so i could try making ocarinas out of real clay that would help a lot.

Oh and by the way to the person a bit above this post that is hoping to buy one of the ocarinas at the top of the page, you don't need a song book before you buy it because it comes with one that has a lot of zelda songs in it. Sorry for taking up so much space with this posting.

I bought the 6 holed XL one.

SO awesome! The only thing is the booklet, and the notes that the guy plays on the demos, are different for some songs. And he didn't put up all of them.

I know all but the clock town songs, as I don't remember how they go. I'm still trying to pack down the last line of Saria's song. The market song I'm slowly learning.

If anyone can explain to me how to make the notes like the guy plays it, like instead of blowing he plays both note on one so they connect... I go the "ta ta ta" thing down. Just the oppisite I don't.

I'm going to play in my class soon.

I begged my dad to order me a zelda ocarina im getting the ocarina of time im so happy it should come this week or next but i am HYPE that i can start playing my ocarina! as soon as it arive at my dads im getting him to send it to me by express post!!! ye noe not many people noe of the zelda games like yea im 11 but do they live under a rock its the best game ever!

oh and how long does it take to learn??? i'll probably learn it in a hour i wont put it down but just in curiosity?

well I'm stupid cause i lost my song book can some1 help me get music

also I'm in 5th grade and i'm mad cuz I'm having trouble playin' it and and these stupid people I get 5 hole ocarina music from leave out notes

Also I'm only 10 and for example, I've ased probobly 5 13 yr. olds and up if they noe what zelda is and they say no what do they like live under a rock that's inside a safe!?!?! ZELDA IS THE BEST GAME EVER!!!

I remember when i first got interested in ocarinas. I was interested in them because they were in zelda and all I wanted was an ocarina that looked exactly like the one in the game but at the time I couldn't find any that were like the zelda ocarina. I found out that the ocarinas in the game were called sweet potato ocarinas and I started looking for ones that were at least blue but after a while i decided to get one that didn't look like the ocarina of time because that one wasn't original and everyone would think it was just a piece of video game merchandise and i wanted one that was my own. So i got a green sweet potato with a leaf design on it because I like forests and i like the whole lost woods thing in zelda. So i'm glad i didn't get one that people would recognize as a piece of zelda merchandise but instead i got one that represented what i like about that game.

What is a good site for Zelda tabs on a pendant (4 hole) ocarina?

I've wanted to get one of these SongBird Ocarinas for years, but was young and didnt have money. I'm 17 now, have some money, and have been contemplating getting one. Today at school I saw someone with the Kokiri Forest one, and it looked cool!

I just want to know if its really worth buying, and if so, which one should I get? Is the extended one harder to play?

I have a Zelda ocarina, and I can play most of the songs, but I'm gonna be honest: I bought it to learn how to play that song Tapion plays in the last DBZ movie. Does anyone know where I can get truly accurate tabs to that tune?

I have a sweet potato Ocarina and love it! it's the best music making thingamabob ever! Not only does it sound awesome, but it also is from one of the best games of all time! sweeeeeeet. And to Tab above, I can't promise anything but I always seem to find everything i'm looking for on, Songbirdocarina.com, and it's usually reasnobly accurate.

We've been playing the mountain ocarinas for about 5 years now. My 12yo is quite proficient and YES, he is picking out the notes from Zelda and playing them on his ocarina.

While the visual art may very well be a factor, the biggest draw to the ocarina IS its *sound*. I too heard the ocarinas at a homeschool convention: people were drawn to his booth like lemmings even tho they had not seen the instrument.

the clay and wood ones may have a lot of sentimental value, but it just ain't fun if your instrument *breaks*. I can literally take these little polycarbonate plastic mountain ocarinas, get them swinging around my head, and WHACK them w/ tremendous force against a concrete floor. and they Don't Break. I've done this REPEATEDLY. Things at my house w/ 5 rambunctious kids have to be indestructible: able to be left out in the rain, mud, freezing temperatures, sat on, stepped on, and drowned. I don't even want to THINK how much $$ we'd go through w/ clay and wooden ocarinas, LOL!

However, I do want to get a zelda ocarina for my 12yo: he's pretty good about taking care of his stuff.

Interesting thread -thanks :-)