Anybody else here a fan of Mountain Ocarinas?
I like the Coda, but you know, I still play my old C and G (in plastic).
Rugged, portable, sweet... I just love these little oc's.
BTW, if anyone has an MO that's made from anything other than plastic and they want to sell it, I'm interested.
Cheers.
Love Those Mountain Ocarinas
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Re: Love Those Mountain Ocarinas
No fans of MO oc's here?
Maybe you'd be interested in my posts on them at https://folkfluteworld.com/article_moun ... rinas.html and https://folkfluteworld.com/article_coda ... flute.html.
They're pretty unusual and a lot of fun. Cheers.
Maybe you'd be interested in my posts on them at https://folkfluteworld.com/article_moun ... rinas.html and https://folkfluteworld.com/article_coda ... flute.html.
They're pretty unusual and a lot of fun. Cheers.
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Re: Love Those Mountain Ocarinas
I've been a fan of Coda EDCs and Mountain Ocarinas for years. To me, they're better than tin whistles - the fingering is nearly the same, they're smaller, they aren't affected by wind, and they can play sharps and flats. I can play anything written for a tin whistle with the Coda (and a lot with an MO, within its scale) on an instrument that fits in my pocket.
A couple of comments from reading your reviews. One: although you can't tune any of these, they are all hand tuned before they leave the workshop. That might be an issue when playing in an ensemble, but not for casual playing. Two: I wouldn't expect to see a Coda in anything but plastic. A Coda is really two vessel flutes, one inside of the other, so the design is incredibly complex. I emailed Karl a comment about the volume of the Codas, and after about an hour on the phone he sent me a couple of factory seconds to try to reduce the volume. The bottom line was that pretty much any tweak I made resulted in the Coda not playing as well as it had before. To redesign a Coda for another material probably would be a multi-year project.
The other thing about these flutes is the designer - Karl Ahrens. His passion for creating a quality instrument that is easy to play and reasonably priced in incredible. I know he's in the process of relocating his manufacturing from Connecticut to Georgia, and I'm looking forward to seeing his new products!
Mike
A couple of comments from reading your reviews. One: although you can't tune any of these, they are all hand tuned before they leave the workshop. That might be an issue when playing in an ensemble, but not for casual playing. Two: I wouldn't expect to see a Coda in anything but plastic. A Coda is really two vessel flutes, one inside of the other, so the design is incredibly complex. I emailed Karl a comment about the volume of the Codas, and after about an hour on the phone he sent me a couple of factory seconds to try to reduce the volume. The bottom line was that pretty much any tweak I made resulted in the Coda not playing as well as it had before. To redesign a Coda for another material probably would be a multi-year project.
The other thing about these flutes is the designer - Karl Ahrens. His passion for creating a quality instrument that is easy to play and reasonably priced in incredible. I know he's in the process of relocating his manufacturing from Connecticut to Georgia, and I'm looking forward to seeing his new products!
Mike