Welcome all ye would-be Mediævalists, to your haven on ye World-Wide Web! So get ready for ye mummery and ye knights on stilts, ye wandering minstrelsies and ye deep fried Mars Bars.
Chiff and Fipple Renaissance Fest and Ye Olde Dark Ages Jamboree doth now commence!
We ask that you please not feed ye horses and other beastes of burthen, and that ye burn no man, yea and no woman or child, at ye stake.
To get ye partie rolling, we hope that you print an ocarina upon a sheet of cardstock or a manilla file folder, and cut it out on ye solid lines, and fold it on ye dashed lines and glue it as indicated, that there be musick and merriment in ye land for all! http://www.clayz.com/cardoc.gif
Good Sir Walden. Yonder card stock ocarina is most pleasing to mine eyes. Where for hither commence you to find articles of such niftyness. Surely thou doesn’t fabricate them amidst thine own mind!
Ye gods and little fishes! No burning at the stake? Alas, my heart doth sink to the tips of my pointy-toed slippers. Methinks I wilt take my guilders elsewhere (in spite of the deep fried candy bars).
Susan
(who nevertheless will check out the knights on stilts)
I pondereth: If thou feed not thine horses nor other beasties of burthen, wilt not they bust down the door of yonder livery in fraught anguish, and commence a right clamor of much wailing and gnashing of teeth?
If ye flaps be properly overlappen, they be hopefully sealed well. If, perchance there be leaks, ye glue and ye Scotch tape can help thee. Thou may also try painting or, verily, ye Mod Podge.
Detective work, in this case. I happened across a dead link for it, so posted an inquiry to an email list, expressing my interest, and was alerted that the graphic had been saved at this location, and it was suggested that I write new instructions and post them on my own site.
Verily, there be stable hands that feed well ye beastes. Trouble cometh when ye publick feedeth ye sugar cubes and ye caramel apples, with much abundance, to ye beasties.
I took a look at the ocarina thingie, but I’m not sure how those parts A and B go. Walden-- if you’ve actually put one together, could you post a pic of that part?
I’ll bet if you coated both sides of the cardstock with polyurethane the finished ocarina would be fairly durable.
Yep, an early substitute for “þ,” I guess. I’ve a reprint of the first edition Authorised Version King James Bible, of 1611, and it uses “y” in this context to some extent, often with the “y” atop the “e,” seems like. “U” and “v” were still being interchanged at that point, as well, and "j"and “i,” which can give an amusing appearance to Roman numerals.
