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• Tips
• Warnings

1 Place your right hand in front of you. Raise your thumb up, turn your right palm towards you.

2 Touch with the right palm of your left hand. Place your left hand on your right hand as if clapping. The middle of the palm of your left hand should be in the middle of the palm of your right hand.

3 Connect your fingers. Bend your fingers so that each hand has a firm grip on the other hand, and align your fingers so that the corresponding knuckles of the fingers of both hands touch each other. Your thumbs should be above your index finger. There should be a long, thin gap between the fingers, about 4mm by 15mm. This is the sound hole.

4 Place the corners of your lips over your knuckles. Squeeze your lips lightly, as if to say something in between "Ooo" and "Yoyo". The sound hole should widen below your lower lip and your thumb joints should be between your lips.

5 Blow the ocarina. Do not use your vocal cords to vocalize the blowing in an attempt to portray the bird singing. Blow silently. It helps if you imagine yourself blowing into a bottle. You should blow between your nails and the first joints of your thumbs - you will hear a whistling sound if you did it right. If no sound is produced, try adjusting the shape of your hands to better tighten or slightly reshape the sound hole.

6 Change the tone by lifting one or two of your right fingers. For higher notes, reduce the space inside your palms. Once you get used to it, you can play just about any song you hear. The pitch can also be controlled by the intensity of your breathing, aiming to sound higher when you blow harder and lower the sound when you blow less.

Tips

• Don't be discouraged if you can't do it the first time. Keep practicing and try changing your position a little.
• Hands should be clean and dry.

Warnings

• Do not strain your mouth while doing this.