12 Hole Alto C Ocarina with Protective Bag, Hand Painted Blue and White Porcelain Musical Instrument, Porcelain clay Collectible with Neck Strap, Gift Idea For Beginner Musician, Easy to Learn

I bought this ocarina after seeing Andy Cormier’s hesitantly positive review for it on YouTube. (Basically it was a better one of sub-standard ocarinas.) As my first ocarina, I was pleasantly surprised at what a beautiful little instrument it is and how sturdy and solid it feels in the hand. I could hardly get a sound out of it for the first few days, but what I did was in tune. I’m going through Cris Gale’s Hal Leonard book, and felt some improvement, but ordered the Night by Noble plastic ocarina just in case I was missing out. What I discovered is that I’ve learned how to blow properly in the NbN, and with that progress I can make this ocarina sing quite nicely now! The main thing is that for the high notes you can’t be shy; you’ll get the note if you give it force, and you can’t expect to play the thing quietly. So far I’m really enjoying this cute little musical instrument. Someday I would like to try an STL, but for now I should be able to learn a lot.