Great ocarina solos.

Subject: RE: Great ocarina solos.
From: The Shambles
Date: 05 Jul 99 - 02:35 AM

Are you two the ones responsible for the translations of Nostradamus?

Subject: RE: Great ocarina solos.
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 04 Jul 99 - 09:54 PM

G'day all,

I guess it would be terribly boring and pedantic to mention that ocarina is the Italian diminutive of oca = goose. Presumably they thought the instrument looked like a little goose (or even a goose egg ... which came first - the goose or the egg?).

Regard(les)s, Bob Bolton

Subject: RE: Great ocarina solos.
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 04 Jul 99 - 08:38 PM

Actually, the oca was originally oka, The c replaced the k when the term was translated into Italian, since there is no k in the Italian alphabet. The oka, of course, is a shortened form of the word hokey, the h dropped in London in the 13th century, and the schwa (upside down e, pronounced uh) pronunciation (and, of course, the a spelling)of the ey evolved when the rina was added. Rina is, of course, the Angle word for the giant marsupials which once abounded in the forests of North Cumbria. The instrument was developed when the dance crossed the Irish Sea to Britain (to be specific, to Liverpool), where certain Liverpudlian dancers felt a bit of melody was needed to mitigate the tedium of endless hours of bodhran pounding. --seed

Subject: RE: Great ocarina solos.
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Jul 99 - 07:31 PM

well, I know some neat ocarina solos! Been playing 'em for maybe 18 years or so. Have 'em in size from tweety little things to a baritone..(know a guy who has a bass). These are NOT the store-bought classic ones usually called a 'sweet potato', but clam-shaped or spherical ones made by a local artist.

One of my favorite tunes is MRS. MACDONALD'S LAMENT

Jingle Bells is also easy....

Subject: RE: Great ocarina solos.
From: Art Thieme
Date: 04 Jul 99 - 04:13 PM

This from the Death Valley Folklore Quarterly---Issue No. XVVLBZlll September 31st, 1776 (page 786):

Ocarina was invented as an IUD for Catherine The Great !!

Art

Subject: RE: Great ocarina solos.
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Jul 99 - 03:51 PM

Know what really amazes me about this place? We can take the damnedest, most inconsequential throw off lines and turn them into part of the catechism of Mudcat. Honest to God, I had to go back and read a bunch of old posts to remember exactly how the "Possum's Ass" thing came about!!! Months later we're possuming up the joint at every whipsnitch.......just really cracks me up!!!!!! Does anyone remember who was really responsible for my throwing out the possum line? Better yet, how did the tiple thing get started? And of course there is Art, who tried to kill the boilerplate threads with a truly ludicrous thread...and VOILA !!!!.......condom catechism.

Doesn't stop me from making wiseass comments, but newbies and visitors must really wonder........Ah to hell with it..........Give 'em a dental dam if they can't take a joke.

catspaw

Subject: RE: Great ocarina solos.
From: Banjer
Date: 04 Jul 99 - 01:34 PM

I think ocarina is the word aniraco spelled backward, and I have no idea what that means either!

Subject: RE: Great ocarina solos.
From: Margo
Date: 04 Jul 99 - 12:32 PM

What's the word origin of "ocarina", anyway? Where on earth did they come from?

Margarita

Subject: RE: Great ocarina solos.
From: Peter T.
Date: 04 Jul 99 - 10:41 AM

Mike, I sympathise. It is sort of depressing to discover that you actually have tucked away in your brain something to do with ocarinas, and never knew it. I have suddenly remembered that there is an ocarina song in "Call Me Madam" by Irving Berlin, with a solo. I can't believe that this has been in there rotting my brain all these years. It is all catspaw's fault. Help!!!
yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Great ocarina solos.
From: Mike Billo
Date: 04 Jul 99 - 10:23 AM

It's come to a a sad day when Mike Billo is the voice of reason and maturity, and a role that I'm not at all happy with, but here goes. The Texas fiddler Johnny Borowski who was active with many Western Swing bands in the '30's and '40's would occasionally play some incredibly hot ocarina solos. Most notably on"Cross Patch" with Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies. Del Porter of Spike Jones and his City Slickers was a great Ocarina player who led an Ocarina quartette called "The Foursome".

Subject: RE: Great ocarina solos.
From: DonMeixner
Date: 04 Jul 99 - 09:35 AM

Best Ocarina solos? Is that like best Bowed Psaltery solos or best Root Canals? Best auto inspection checks IRS audits would be similar too.

Don

Subject: RE: Great ocarina solos.
From: Banjer
Date: 04 Jul 99 - 06:59 AM

WARNING: The following is a TIC/NOI message!

With apologies in advance to Catspaw and other possum or tater butt blowers, but from those I have heard, it would seem that solo is the best way to play any ocarina. Solo(w) that it can hardly be heard.

Subject: Great ocarina solos.
From: The Shambles
Date: 04 Jul 99 - 05:58 AM

The ONLY ocarina solo, I know of that had any degree of success was the one on The Trogg's, 'Wild Thing'. It works quite well. Was that their idea or did the solo come from an earlier version?