ocarina

ocarina
—ocarinist, n.
/ok'euh ree"neuh/, n.
a simple musical wind instrument shaped somewhat like an elongated egg with a mouthpiece and finger holes. Also called sweet potato.
[ < It, orig. dial. (Emilia), dim. of oca goose ( < LL auca, contr. of *avica, deriv. of L avis bird), so called from the instrument's shape; appar. the name given to it by Giuseppe Donati of Budrio, near Bologna, who popularized a ceramic version c1860]

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(Italian: “little goose”),also called  Sweet Potato,  

      globular flute, a late 19th-century musical development of traditional Italian carnival whistles of earthenware, often bird-shaped and sounding only one or two notes. It is an egg-shaped vessel of clay or metal or, as a toy, of plastic and is sounded on the flageolet, or fipple flute, principle. It usually has eight finger holes and two thumbholes and may have a tuning plunger.

      In the 1930s it won professional popularity when “sweet potatoes” of different sizes were played in harmony in American popular music. The ocarina is a well-known European example of the globular flute, a form that occurs in many ancient and modern cultures.

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