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Of all the different animal sounds produced,
the song of birds has been the most inspirational to musicians
and composers since the dawn of hominid music.
Recently an open-air production at Kenwood House
obtained ocarinas to produce bird song for
"A Mid-Summer Nights Dream"

And an American company gave Ariel in

"The Tempest"
an ocarina to play instead of a more familiar recorder.

David Medalla's

"Bird Ballet"
performed by "The Exploding Galaxy"at "The Roundhouse"in the 60's featured Birdmasks with built-in ocarinas -blown with the nostril and having four equal sized tone-holes played with the tongue.

Also during the 1965 Film Festival at the inception of The London Film Co-operative, attended by Harvey Matusow and Yoko Ono,JT and BJ passed ocarinas around the audience for them to accompany an experimental underground movie -Filmed by Ivor Main and BJ it featured Adam Jamieson and friend exploring the Victoria Line tunnel construction site.

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