take an egg and a power drill...

Subject: take an egg and a power drill...
From: Jack Campin
Date: 17 May 11 - 05:56 PM

...and a chromatic tuner:

Making an egg ocarina

Subject: RE: take an egg and a power drill...
From: Bill D
Date: 17 May 11 - 06:33 PM

,,,but don't play any "heavy metal"...

I think I'll stick to my ceramic ones.

Subject: RE: take an egg and a power drill...
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 18 May 11 - 03:33 AM

Jolly good idea. Thanks for information.

Blow and enjoy
W.

Subject: RE: take an egg and a power drill...
From: GUEST,John MacKenzie
Date: 18 May 11 - 03:57 AM

Aye, ye cannae beat it!

Subject: RE: take an egg and a power drill...
From: Mo the caller
Date: 18 May 11 - 05:52 AM

Does the positioning of the holes matter?

Subject: RE: take an egg and a power drill...
From: Jack Campin
Date: 18 May 11 - 06:10 AM

It might matter to a chick, but not to an ocarina player. You put them wherever it's easiest for your fingers to reach.

Subject: RE: take an egg and a power drill...
From: BanjoRay
Date: 18 May 11 - 07:14 AM

So - is it the size of the holes that sets the pitch?

Subject: RE: take an egg and a power drill...
From: Jack Campin
Date: 18 May 11 - 07:20 AM

Yup. Unless the ocarina has an unusually complicated internal shape, the hole position makes no difference at all - only the wall thickness and hole cross-sectional area.

Subject: RE: take an egg and a power drill...
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 18 May 11 - 08:36 AM

Thus the classic blues:-

You can squeeze my ocarina baby, til the yolk runs down my leg.....

Subject: RE: take an egg and a power drill...
From: GUEST,Oldtimer
Date: 18 May 11 - 08:39 AM

Eggstraordinary !,- eggscellent-! wow , Im shell shocked.I am going to start a Shell Quartet right away.Anyone got an Ostrich Egg to spare to fill in on the base line ?

Subject: RE: take an egg and a power drill...
From: GUEST,John MacKenzie
Date: 18 May 11 - 09:19 AM

That post was beyond a yolk Dan.
When can we look forward to your next albumen?
Whenever it arrives, I'm sure it will be all white.
Or a meringue?

Subject: RE: take an egg and a power drill...
From: Snuffy
Date: 18 May 11 - 09:37 AM

No John, you're right. It will be all white.

Subject: RE: take an egg and a power drill...
From: GUEST,Oldtimer
Date: 18 May 11 - 09:53 AM

The R.S.P.C.E. is eggsamining that footage.Here is another eggsample of   eggstreme human eggsploitation of a silent minority ----I feel like cracking up --
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsBDEiJFrws

Subject: RE: take an egg and a power drill...
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 May 11 - 10:17 AM

I love that guy's videos on making ocarinas out of almost anything one can find in the kitchen. Thanks!

Subject: RE: take an egg and a power drill...
From: GUEST,John MacKenzie
Date: 18 May 11 - 01:24 PM

What an horrHENdous BATTERY, of CHEEP puns.
I should raise the standard, and post a quotation from OMELETTE (Prince of Denmark), by William Shakespeare. Not for nothing is it known among superstitious actors as 'The Scotch Egg play'
May I instead, propose, a French toast.

BTW Mudguard is into drilling holes in eggs, in a big way.

Subject: RE: take an egg and a power drill...
From: MudGuard
Date: 19 May 11 - 06:53 PM

yes, John, I am - but I never tried to play tunes on my holey Easter eggs (I do not have enough fingers to cover all the holes ...)

Subject: RE: take an egg and a power drill...
From: Crowhugger
Date: 19 May 11 - 11:24 PM

Thanks for the link, Jack; what a great little home made instrument. I'm curious, what are relative diameters of the holes needed to get a major scale, and what is the effect of thicker or thinner walls on the sound? Maybe you can point me to another thread if this has been discussed already.

Subject: RE: take an egg and a power drill...
From: Jack Campin
Date: 20 May 11 - 04:42 AM

The calculations are pretty difficult. Generally you start by tuning the lowest open hole note and keep adding more holes until you reach the point where the tone dissolves in a wheeze (a range of about a tenth). The guy in the video is using one of those conical grinding bits, so he can enlarge the holes progressively.

Subject: RE: take an egg and a power drill...
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 20 May 11 - 12:40 PM

'The guy in the video is using one of those conical grinding bits, so he can enlarge the holes progressively.'

He looks the sort who might....!

Subject: RE: take an egg and a power drill...
From: Big Mick
Date: 20 May 11 - 04:36 PM

You people have to much time on your hens............

Subject: RE: take an egg and a power drill...
From: Crowhugger
Date: 21 May 11 - 09:22 AM

I see...thanks, Jack.

Subject: RE: take an egg and a power drill...
From: The Sandman
Date: 21 May 11 - 01:24 PM

it gives a whole new meaning to blow job, send one to bill clinton.