Terry Riley Vessel Flutes

OCARINAS IN THE KALAHARI Report back on the progress of ocarina enthusiasts in Botswana. This mail from Lynn Hardbattle to John Langley, ocarina maker. click here to read
	James Percival has produced a superb, user-friendly program for composing your own ocarina music. You can download a free copy by clicking on the picture. You can also upload and exchange compositions. Many thanks to James - have fun.

STONEAGE OCARINA FOUND NEAR GREAT MISSENDEN
A big thank you to Peter Cox for bringing this stoneage instrument along to the Great Missenden Live Crafts Show in June 2003. It was found near a building site and is a hollowed out geode with one blow hole and 3 finger holes, giving several fairly clear notes. Its age ? ten thousand, twenty thousand, 30 thousand year old? Certainly similar instruments have been dated to around twenty thousand years old and there are striking similarities between this one and a little Chinese stoneage instrument which is featured in my little history book.
OCARINAS TO COLOMBIA One of Terry's customers, Martha Patricia Ramirez, music teacher at the Colegio San Carlos Primary School in Bogota, has been nominated for the Premio Compartir award as a result of her work teaching children to play the "poly-oc". For the last three years, the Colegio has introduced the ocarina into the second grade music syllabus, achieving spectacular results. Many of the children have started to write down Colombian folk music using the ocarina finger charts pioneered by Ocarina Workshop. Terry sends his thanks to Colegio San Carlos for their latest order. We are so pleased to hear about the students' enthusiasm for playing. Click photo to see full size.
MUSIC FROM 7000 BC on the bone-age flute Article from the Daily Mail, 23rd September 1999 about the discovery of a 9,000 year old bone flute. Click picture to read full transcript.