have been playing music for well over 9 years, and have just recently
discovered the fun in playing the ocarina. The timbre of its pitch mathces
beautifully with some of the things we as students do with our percussion
ensemble. I love your site man, especially because I'm trying to learn the
ocarina, and you have a lot of helpful suggestions. The only thing I can offer
as a musician is that when you use Solfege to identify notes, you have So
written for the dominant of the scale ( C I'm imagining because you have
nothing else to address it by), when it is in fact Sol. Also, you have listed
as the leading tone of the scale (i.e. C) Si, when it is actually Ti. Other
than that, I found a lot of things on your site informative. Understand please
that I mean nothing in any way sarcastic in my statement above, because from
what I understand this site is translated from Japanese, and there could very
well be a mistake somewhere in the translation process. Thank you again for
your advice on playing the ocarina.
Ocarinaのアンサンブルは教会のオルガンの様に美しく心に響きます。
貴方の熱意はすばらしいですね。
Ocarinaを作りましょう！Ocarinaを作る事はオブジェを作る事ではなく、
心や音を作る事です。それに、貴方の好きな音色や音程が得られます。
貴方の音楽性や性格がそのまま音になり、きっと楽しいかもしれませんよ。
Dear John D. Miller
Thank you for a comment. Louisiana Tech University in Ruston !!!
The ensemble of Ocarina thinks that it sounds the heart beautifully like the organ of a church. The zeal over your Ocarina is admired. Let's make Ocarina! Ocarina is not made by making an object. It is making the heart and sound.Your favorite tone and favorite pitch are obtained by it.Your music nature and character become sound as it is. It may surely be pleasant.(As for the reading of a tone, the reading of four countries is used for Japan. English Italian German Japanese. Music is international. Although it thinks that it is satisfactory, how is it?When a question and a problem are in the contents or translation, please let me know.) Thank you.
My name is Suimin and I am helping the translation of this site. Thank you for your suggestions on how to call the notes. Actually, when I looked at dictionaries (technical one for music and general one), I found that there are couple of spellings and pronunciations for notes of G and B (in German, they call it H). G corresponds to "So" or "Sol", B to "Si" or "Ti". I understand that Do Re Mi... is derived from Italian and French, that's is why there are multiple forms I guess. I did not know which is used more commonly. Because you who play music say Sol and Ti, now I think Sol and Ti are more common (at least in USA). Anyway, thank you for letting me know about it.
