The name of the ocarina spread to the mainland from Taiwan. It has its own name, called "Ocarina".
According to legend, there was a baker in a small village in northern Italy who often used his oven to bake low-temperature ceramic toys and other novelties. Once he made an egg-shaped toy with a whistle like a neck. Because it resembled the shape of a common goose in daily life, he named it "ocarina", which is "little goose" in Italian dialect. mean.
The English name of the ocarina "ocarina" comes from here, and is transliterated as Ocarina flute. This name is still commonly used today.
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Development history
Many bird bones with different numbers of branch holes were unearthed in Hemudu, Yuyao, Zhejiang. Carbon 14 tests have shown that some bone whistles are 7,000 years old and can still produce simple tones that resemble birdsong. In addition, the oldest xun in China was also unearthed here, but it only has one blowing hole and no sound hole. Normal blowing can only produce one sound.
A batch of clay-fired utensils were unearthed in Ecuador, South America. They were made around 2000 BC. Analysis found that some of them could play simple music. After development, between 500 and 600 BC, the Ocarina made by the Mayans could play a complete scale.
In 1527, a group of Mexican Aztec artists used ocarinas with whistles in performances for the court of Charles V.
Later spread to Europe, an Italian named Giuseppe Donati added some regular finger holes to this original bird-shaped whistle, called it Ocarina, and gradually turned it into what we see today. Common English name for most spherical musical instruments. Later, after continuous improvement, it eventually evolved into the ancestor of today's 12-hole ocarina.
In 1860, Giuseppe Donati established the first factory in Italy and began to make ocarinas. They transformed the original popular ocarina, and the current Italian ten-hole ocarina appeared after that. This studio has been transferred several times and is still producing Italian-style ocarinas.
In 1963, John Taylor made the first four-hole ocarina in London, England. The four holes of different sizes seemed to be arranged in a binary system and could be combined into sixteen different states. For the first time More sound is achieved with fewer holes. In addition, it can be expanded to 5 holes, 6 holes or even more, and the sound range will also increase. The popular six-hole ocarina is based on it.
In 1928, when he entered the Sculpture Department of Akitagawa Tokyo University of the Arts, he began to make ocarinas and transformed the Italian ocarina into an instrument with standardized fingering scales, which is what it is today. The twelve-hole Japanese ocarina we saw has another name in Japan, called earth flute.
The earliest popular ocarina in Taiwan was the Peruvian-style craft ocarina. It could produce sound but was not easy to play the standard fingering scales. Later, it was improved and the regular shape was like a water drop or heart shape. There are also various variations of ocarina varieties.
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