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submitted 4 days ago by noerdman@discuss.tchncs.de to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 36 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I don’t know if I like this take.

I own two ocarinas specifically because of Zelda. The site I bought them from has a bunch of Zelda themed ones as well as a bunch of others.

The game raised awareness about the instrument, and I certainly wouldn’t have learned to play it (or any instrument for that matter) if it wasn’t for one of my favorite games.

How many people play guitar just because they saw a guy play one in a movie?

Also leaving this here. https://youtu.be/79Y6Q47qjlw?si=P6nN1i-tKFQP7Dhb

[–] noerdman@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 4 days ago

Oh, this was by no means meant to degrade the idea of picking up something from pop culture. It was meant to capture that weird situation or feeling when seemingly the whole world connects something you like to some particular item from popular culture that you don't know about. That's not supposed to say that those people are wrong in any way, but it does make it kind of hard or annoying to discuss that topic. Should you then dump your hobby to play the recorder instead? I mean, maybe, if you live in a four-panel-world that needs a punchline ;). Playing OOT would of course have been a solution as well, especially since Zelda games are time well spent, but wouldn't have been as funny.

Also leaving this here. https://youtu.be/79Y6Q47qjlw

I love it.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Woah! Just like in Guitar Hero!!

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

relevant XKCD

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah the extended range sweet potato ocarina is pretty specific, if you go buy an ocarina uninfluenced by Zelda it's way more likely that you'd get a medallion ocarina.
Hey, is Songbird Ocarina still around? I miss mine.

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago

What's wrong with people connecting with your interest by the, likely, only association they have to it?

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 29 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Who the hell called that a recorder btw? As not-a-native-speaker, the first time I heard that term I was super confused, thinking they were talking about a tape recorder.

[–] proudblond@lemmy.world 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It’s an old ass instrument so it had the name long before tape recorders. As for other kind of recording, Wikipedia says:

The instrument name recorder derives from the Latin recordārī (to call to mind, remember, recollect), by way of Middle-French recorder(before 1349; to remember, to learn by heart, repeat, relate, recite, play music) and its derivative recordeur (c. 1395; one who retells, a minstrel). The association between the various, seemingly-disparate, meanings of recorder can be attributed to the role of the medieval jongleur in learning poems by heart and later reciting them, sometimes with musical accompaniment.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 9 points 4 days ago

Damn jongleurs!

(But thanks for teaching me something today!)

[–] USSMojave@startrek.website 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Millions of American children are (were?) given these in the third grade and yes they all call them that

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 days ago

We all had these in school as well in Europe but we just call them flutes.

[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Same in the UK.

[–] ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

As a native English speaker, I had the same thought.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 6 points 4 days ago

Yup, That’s a straight flute.

[–] Xatolos@reddthat.com 14 points 4 days ago

A recorder, like in Super Mario 3?

[–] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Many of us have probably heard it way before Zelda.

[–] noerdman@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 days ago

Wow, TIL!

[–] cfi@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Also the ubiquitous theme from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Also the rest of the snow, where the Ocarina represents Angel Eyes (the Bad)

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

I want a replica of the ocarina from Lunar: A Silver Star Story.

It's such a beautiful instrument.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW-BZ98lCco

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The modern recorder was popularized by the Nazis, as the German folk instrument of choice (which isn't true, but made for good propaganda).

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 points 4 days ago

goes back to the ocarina

[–] sxan@midwest.social -2 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Me.

My sister showed up at one Christmas with an Ocarina app on her phone. It was really cool; I'd never played Zelda nor understood the relationship, so I thought it was a real instrument and spent some time in a Zelda rabbit hole.

Still haven't played the game, and I still wish there was a real instrument that sounds as cool as that app. The real difference between that and a recorder is the reverb; a real ocarina would have to have some difference sound-making mechanism than a whistle; there'd have to be some vibrating component, like in a harmonica.

[–] noerdman@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 4 days ago

I still wish there was a real instrument that sounds as cool as that app

a real instrument

Like... An ocarina?

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 25 points 4 days ago

so I thought it was a real instrument

..... It is a real instrument. Like over 5,000 years old.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This has to be a copypasta

[–] sxan@midwest.social 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nope, just ignorance!

[–] noerdman@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 days ago

Hey, you're one of today's lucky 10,000!

[–] abysmalpoptart@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can't tell if sarcasm/trolling, but just in case:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocarina

[–] sxan@midwest.social 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Neither. I honestly found mainly references to Zelda when I went looking, and thought the IRL ones were made based on the game.

The app must have simulated the game instrument, which had some sort of sustaining reverb. However, that wikipedia article is fantastic! There are multi-chambered ocarinas, which would support chords, which recorders don't; that's cool!

I honestly didn't know there was a real version first!

[–] johnthebeboptist@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

I mean, you can definitely make recorders with multiple chambers. Check out native American flutes - lots of which are essentially recorders. Just search for double flute or drone flute on YouTube.

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

There are many reproductions of the ocarina from the game but there are also like a billion different styles.

The Zelda ones are definitely the most popular though.