NOTEA ON A F OCARINA HOW TO
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Unfortunately you have transposed incorrectly. This is a great project but the final product cannot possibly work. Remember clean the holes with fine sand paper. If the arrow is floating to the left of 0 use a round or rat tail file to enlarge the hole so you don't make it too big. Keep making the hole bigger until the arrow is at the 0 point. You will drill the first hole and get an E# then Fb then an F but with the arrow far to the left. The tuning will most likely proceed like this keep increasing the size of the hole until you get an F. Start with the smallest drill bit you have or go to the first step in the unibit and check the tone. In the case of this first hole we are looking for an F Regular drill bits at larger sizes catch on the wood and end up ruining it and best is no bits to change.Īll 4 holes start small and you test the tone with the tuner and gradually increase the size of the hole until you get to the desired note. This hole is the top right hole.Īs far as I'm aware the hole placement isn't critical and I have not found it to be.Īlso the best tool I have found for this is the unibit or Christmas tree drill bit as some call it(for obvious reasons). Seeing as how the base note is E the first hole that we will drill (the #1 hole) Theoretically if I had an E# I could remove material and lower the pitch to an E. If you could you would able to lower the pitch by making the chamber bigger. Unfortunately you can't remove material from this ocarina. So I was able to add material and go from Eb to E. I added another piece to tune it to a E noteĪs a side note you can add material to the chamber, effectively making the chamber smaller to raises the pitch. I checked mine and I'm getting an E flat. Ideally you want it at 0.Īlso set the tuner to use sharps and flats. For example while trying to tune the base note on the ocarina (E in this case) you want the blue arrow at the bottom as close to 0 as you can get it. The blue arrow at the bottom shows you how true your note is. The 'b' is called a flat and that means your note is on the low side and the '#' is called a sharp and means your note is on the high side. This explanation of sharps and flats is for the purposes of tuning. So when you blow into your ocarina you will see a note on the tuner with a number and possibly a funny little 'b' or a '#'.

The number indicates the octave the note is at (or would it be in?). If you have heard the term 'middle C', it is the middle C note in a piano key board, It is also known as C4. Music notes go in 8 note increments called octaves, so one octave would go CDEFGABC. I know very little about music so bear with me.įor the rest of the instructable you will need a tuner( )and short simple lesson on how music notes work. This is where is get a little complicated. When making an ocarina in this fashion you can use this as a guide to make one using different dimensions.ġ/8' hard wood all pieces (I'm using cherry)

The reason is that using sheet wood you can make just about any size ocarina you want. I have tried to make this the more comprehensive than my last 2 instructable's (carve and ocarina and PVC ocarina).

NOTEA ON A F OCARINA HOW TO

In this instructable you will learn how to make a wood ocarina out of 1/8' sheet stock. In closing I would like to thank the staff at instructables, Epilog, and the instructables community for making possible this opportunity and challenge (it was) to win a laser cutter.

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Notea on a f ocarina