I think it's an ace instrument. Does anyone play it professionally???

PDQ Bach, one of father Bach's umpteen children, wrote music for kazoos and all sorts of strange instruments, besides regular instruments and choral music. I wouldn't be at all surprised if an ocarina weren't in there somewhere, only probably the ocarina wasn't invented when he was alive (late 1700's). A fun thing to do is google PDQ Bach and go into some of the sites that let you hear snippets of some of his stuff - it's wild and weird.

And now that you've read the previous post and googled PDQ Bach, it can be told that this man is the invention of Peter Schickele, an inventive composer who's made a name writing fantastic music. As one reviewer said, "You either like his music or you love it."

had one once played it for one song...doubt i can even remember how to do the scale now...cool instrument though...wonder where mine is...grrr i'm gonna have to go serching though the loft and find it now thanks to you!!!

ps for all the americans out there a loft is the attic

no i kno the thing that sticks out is wat u blow in lol

Well I am going to get one soon! It looks and sounds so cool! Of course, I also love it because I love to play Zelda!

i play ocarina because of zelda.
it is so much fun. just get a cheep plastic sweet potato one.
i also play the round one, oh whats that called....
i like sweet potato ones better.

i have an awesome clay one painted with cool patterns, that i got in california at one of the old mission churches my mom makes us go view all the time
its fun

got that right.

Never tried one, I only play the recorder, but after listening to people playin' ocarina on youtube, the recorder doesn't sound good anymore :P I'm gonna buy this 9-hole tenor ocarina as soon as possible! http://www.stlocarina.com/e3dis.html

Btw. check this guy on the triple ocarina out! That's skills!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITGas0eHE5I