I recently gave in to an urge I have had for over a year to purchase an ocarina from Mountain Ocarina. Finding time to practice is important and I’m having success with five minute sessions. HISTORY The Ocarina is a simple instrument most often made in the shape of a potato with seven or eight holes on top and two on the bottom. Instruments resembling the ocarina have cropped up in the cultures of South and Central America, ancient China, and India among others. Generally the native versions are made of clay, which is fragile. Mountain Ocarinas are not fragile. … Continue reading
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I’m a person with a very visual memory. I think in picture which, if I need to speak or write, I translate into words. When I am reading, all the words translate into images and the story unrolls in my mind like a film and surrounds me. Music is also stored as images rather than directly as sound. Everything in my brain is visual; it is all translated from the pictures when I communicate. To learn a song I practice it over and over and over again until pictures flow in patterns in my mind. Those images hold the music … Continue reading