亚洲网紅露点

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ocarina

[ ok-uh-ree-nuh ]

noun

  1. a simple musical wind instrument shaped somewhat like an elongated egg with a mouthpiece and finger holes.


ocarina

/ 藢蓲办蓹藞谤颈藧苍蓹 /

noun

  1. an egg-shaped wind instrument with a protruding mouthpiece and six to eight finger holes, producing an almost pure tone Also called (US informal)sweet potato
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of ocarina1

First recorded in 1875鈥80; from Italian, originally dialect (Emilia), diminutive of oca 鈥済oose鈥 (from Late Latin auca, contraction of unattested avica, derivative of Latin avis 鈥渂ird鈥), so called from the instrument's shape; apparently the name given to it by Giuseppe Donati (1836鈥1925) of Budrio, near Bologna, who popularized a ceramic version c1860
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of ocarina1

C19: from Italian: little goose, from oca goose, ultimately from Latin avis bird
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The guitar and ocarina join the orchestra 鈥 the Pacific Symphony, conducted by David LaMarche, replacing de la Parra, who couldn鈥檛 travel because of an ear infection.

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What was Morricone thinking, you may wonder, when he introduced the whistle of an ocarina, or joined it to the portentous chants of a choir?

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Once the stumps are ready, have one person play an instrument, like the ocarina, while the other players walk around the stumps.

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I heard the ocarina as the voice of Juana standing out from the crowd.

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There鈥檚 even an event called 鈥淰egetable Orchestra鈥 that is scheduled for Sunday morning and promises pumpkin drums and potato ocarinas.

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