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An Ocarina is a small wind instrument shaped like a potato or an egg.  It is usually made out of terra- cotta, (clay), or carved from wood. If it is made from clay, it must be tuned when the clay is still wet. The Ocarina has finger holes and a mouthpiece and comes in all different sizes, the larger ones having a mellow, hollow tone.

Some ocarinas are small and round and can be worn around your neck.  Those usually have four or five holes and are called pendant ocarinas.

The ocarina Link plays in The Ocarina of Time is called a sweet potato ocarina and it has four holes. (But the one in the Zelda game has seven holes.)

Music gives a soul to the universe,
wings to the mind, flight to the imagination,
a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything.
- Plato

And some of the songs from the game, played on the Ocarina.

Thanks to songbirdocarina.com and Youtube for the vid.

Zelda's Lullaby