I own two ocarinas specifically because of Zelda. The site I bought them from has a bunch of Zelda themed ones as well as a bunch of others.
The game raised awareness about the instrument, and I certainly wouldn’t have learned to play it (or any instrument for that matter) if it wasn’t for one of my favorite games.
How many people play guitar just because they saw a guy play one in a movie?
Oh, this was by no means meant to degrade the idea of picking up something from pop culture. It was meant to capture that weird situation or feeling when seemingly the whole world connects something you like to some particular item from popular culture that you don’t know about. That’s not supposed to say that those people are wrong in any way, but it does make it kind of hard or annoying to discuss that topic. Should you then dump your hobby to play the recorder instead? I mean, maybe, if you live in a four-panel-world that needs a punchline ;). Playing OOT would of course have been a solution as well, especially since Zelda games are time well spent, but wouldn’t have been as funny.
Yeah the extended range sweet potato ocarina is pretty specific, if you go buy an ocarina uninfluenced by Zelda it’s way more likely that you’d get a medallion ocarina.
Hey, is Songbird Ocarina still around? I miss mine.
I don’t know if I like this take.
I own two ocarinas specifically because of Zelda. The site I bought them from has a bunch of Zelda themed ones as well as a bunch of others.
The game raised awareness about the instrument, and I certainly wouldn’t have learned to play it (or any instrument for that matter) if it wasn’t for one of my favorite games.
How many people play guitar just because they saw a guy play one in a movie?
Also leaving this here. https://youtu.be/79Y6Q47qjlw?si=P6nN1i-tKFQP7Dhb
Woah! Just like in Guitar Hero!!
relevant XKCD
Oh, this was by no means meant to degrade the idea of picking up something from pop culture. It was meant to capture that weird situation or feeling when seemingly the whole world connects something you like to some particular item from popular culture that you don’t know about. That’s not supposed to say that those people are wrong in any way, but it does make it kind of hard or annoying to discuss that topic. Should you then dump your hobby to play the recorder instead? I mean, maybe, if you live in a four-panel-world that needs a punchline ;). Playing OOT would of course have been a solution as well, especially since Zelda games are time well spent, but wouldn’t have been as funny.
I love it.
Yeah the extended range sweet potato ocarina is pretty specific, if you go buy an ocarina uninfluenced by Zelda it’s way more likely that you’d get a medallion ocarina.
Hey, is Songbird Ocarina still around? I miss mine.