Make A Clay Ocarina

Ever since "Legend of Zelda : Ocarina of Time" came out, everyone associates ocarinas with Zelda and there fore, anyone interested in ocarinas is considered a die-hard Zelda fanatic!! There is alot more to Ocarinas than Zelda you know. With this Instructable, you can learn how to make wonderful masterpieces THAT SING!! And you will learn a little about the history of the Ocarina but that is besides the point...

Step 1 The Clay

Well, obviously you need clay to make a clay ocarina. It is possible to make it out of wood but that will come some other time when i have the time, money and patience... Ocarinas have been around since the stone age. Aztecs used them for ritual purposes.

Comments

[superknexbuilder]

What happened to the edges ib step7? and also, could this work with mud?

[ilpug]

This is awesome. I would love to see this with some terra sig art on it!

[pseventy-seven]

Don't paint it, glaze it :P

Thanks for the tutorial. I'm going to try to make this in ceramics class and hope that the teacher doesn't think it's a bong.

[Javioca]

can it be made out of air dry clay

[santis308]

yep. I actually doubted that it could be done since air dry clay kinda sucks, but I was able to pull it off. I just had to be extremely careful, and also, keeping your hands moist might be a good idea.

[the_TRUE_LINK_OWNZ!]

yes.

[bdoggy45]

is the carrot shaped mold already hardden

[FFVIIBOY]

Does yours make noise?

[FunkNattidelic]

It does if you cut the voicing correctly,
If you follow all of the steps you should have a working instrument. =P

[FFVIIBOY]

Cool, if it takes a few days to dry then i dont have the patience for this but ill make this eventually, im not very paitent. I never actually played ocarina of time but i hav phantom hourglass and i can play the original on this website but i cant save, yesterday i spent from 8 in the morning to 9 at night playin but somethin went rong with the computer and i lost ALL that stuff i did, i was so mad i almost fainted

[tinker234]

i know happened to me to on my ds

[mclason]

i don't think anyone cares about your phantom hourglass story. . .

[FFVIIBOY]

I dont even remember posting that Phantom Hourglass comment but yeah I used to always go on and on so things Im talking about make sense, but I dont really do that anymore, for example...

[um7kay]

get a life?

[FFVIIBOY]

why dont y- oh who am i kiddin your right

[FFVIIBOY]

i have ocarina of time now on my computer but im stuck on the boss of the forest dungeon

[Brian Wall]

im working on one now i couldnt get the voicing right

[evan_jeffries]

when you put grooves on clay to hold two pieces together its called scoring

[Dr. Who]

can you make it any size? or that same size?

[builderkidj]

can we make one like the zelda one?

[chompy909]

Does it have to be that exact size or can it be what ever size you want?

[kowen]

Hey I was wondering if it is possible to do this with air dry clay? Or is it to brittle?

[leon0862]

im pissed the only clay i could find around town is freakin air dry and baking and they suck where can i find the good made clay >O<

[furrie]

What size did you make the "carrot" ? or doesn't it realy matter?

[JBowmanDIY]

does the hole go all the way through into the ocarina?

[FunkNattidelic]

Yes,
It works kind of like a pan flute, the air is blown over the small hole and vibrates through the chamber. If you don't cut the hole all the way through, it won't make noise.

[Devin281]

Thanks for the chart. Really helped when i made mine. Hahaha. I play in concerts now because of this instructable very well done :)

[doughnutguy1]

I see no holes on this instrument. D: Why?

[FunkNattidelic]

Because, i hadn't put the holes in before it dried. This particular ocarina is long gone, it was crushed shortly after I created it.

[doughnutguy1]

D:

[Dumchicken]

do you mean I:( ?

[doughnutguy1]

? well, no, I am trying to convey that it sucks that that ocarina had a short little life.

[Dumchicken]

o than you mean

[FFVIIBOY]

paint it blue and show a pic of it painted on the last step

[Dumchicken]

and then put a tri force on it im a huge legend of zelda fan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

[SteampunkManiac]

why not paint it some shimmering metallic colors? I think that would be cool.

[eulaliaaaa!]

ahem... "There is a lot more to Ocarinas than Zelda" Un quote.

[FFVIIBOY]

yeah i know, i just like how the ocarina of time is blue

[bloke2022]

It's blue in Link to the Past too.

[doughnutguy1]

ITS CALLED A FLUTE IN THAT GAME *Insert Rage*