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Best Ocarinas & Accessories for Travel

One of my favorite things about ocarinas is how small and portable they are—you can take them anywhere. Thus, you may consider bringing an ocarina on your next trip! If so, I have a few recommendations ⬇️ When traveling, unless you have a specific performance you’re bringing your instrument for, I’d recommend against bringing anythingContinue reading “Best Ocarinas & Accessories for Travel”

Are Ocarinas Actually Easy to Learn?

Learning an instrument is hard, there’s no debate to that. How many of you had to play recorder in elementary school and simply couldn’t get the hang of it? Although I’m a musician now, the recorder was tough for me back in the days before I was serious about music, despite being an allegedly easy instrument to learn. However, compare attempting toContinue reading “Are Ocarinas Actually Easy to Learn?”

[PART 2] The 2018 US Ocarina Festival: Concert, Camping, Phuket

[PART 2] The 2018 US Ocarina Festival: Concert, Camping, Phuket To Recap… We drove up on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, got to see everyone, and rehearsed on Friday before going to an open-mic performance. Read the whole post here! This post covers Ocabanda’s concert forward. We worked really hard coming to this point, and I’mContinue reading “[PART 2] The 2018 US Ocarina Festival: Concert, Camping, Phuket”

Fanime 2018: Of Panels and Daddies

I went through my schedule for the week in my head: Finish finals, prepare for my panel, go to rehearsal 4 times this week, perform in 4 concerts, do my panel, get ready for the roadtrip after the convention ends, learn my Ocarina music, get ready for my Japan trip… And after going through allContinue reading “Fanime 2018: Of Panels and Daddies”

Ocarinas – How I Found Opportunity From a Niche Hobby

When people ask me about my hobbies, whenever I mention that I play Ocarina, they invariably say things like this: You mean the thing from Zelda? Oh cool! ….what are they? Ocawhatta now? I expect these answers, so I don’t mind it, but the point is: Ocarinas aren’t well known, at least in America. They’reContinue reading “Ocarinas – How I Found Opportunity From a Niche Hobby”

Ocabanda @ MAGfest 2018 – A Recap

Ocabanda @ MAGfest 2018 – A Recap Day -1 – Coming In Tuesday night, the day after New Year’s Day,  my heart is racing in the airport while I anticipate my flight to leave San Jose. For the first time in six months and the second time ever, I am going to see my familyContinue reading “Ocabanda @ MAGfest 2018 – A Recap”