Ocarina

[[File:File:Ocarina of Time.png.png|20x20px]] [[|]] An ocarina (oh-kah-REE-nah) is a wind instrument, often made of clay or wood, played with a whistle mouthpiece. In the games Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask and Link's Awakening, Link uses his ocarina to accomplish many tasks by playing certain songs.

Appearances

A Link to the Past

Main article: Flute § A Link to the Past

An ocarina appears in A Link to the Past; however, it is called the flute due to a mistranslation. Link plays this ocarina to call a duck which can take him to different parts of the Light World.

Link's Awakening

Template:Sectstub In Link's Awakening, the ocarina is used to play the following songs once learned:

• Manbo's Mambo
• Frog's Song of Soul
• Ballad of the Wind Fish

Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask

Main article: Ocarina of Time (Item)

The Ocarina of Time plays an important role in both Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. In Ocarina of Time, Link uses it to solve various puzzles, travel to the entrance of temples, open the way to the Door of Time, and even change from day to night in an instant. The Ocarina of Time in Majora's Mask is also used for a wide variety of purposes, with its most prominent being traveling back in time to the Dawn of the First Day by playing the "Song of Time."

The Minish Cap

Main article: Ocarina of Wind

In The Minish Cap, Link has a blue Ocarina called the Ocarina of Wind. It functions like the flute from A Link to the Past, in which the young hero uses it to call a bird known as Zeffa which can take him to parts of Hyrule where Link has uncovered a Wind Crest.

Other appearances

In BS The Legend of Zelda, an Ocarina is found in the third Dungeon, which can be used to warp to other dungeons. When the Ocarina is played on a pad near the eastern shore, the sixth dungeon will appear.

In Tingle's Love Balloon Trip, a mysterious, hooded character known as Segare plays an ocarina to call his horse. The ocarina is similar in design to the Ocarina of Time.

Similar items

In Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland, Tingle has a Bone Ocarina which can be used to call a pirate ship. Later he gets it upgraded to allow him to open the ten hidden blue pirate treasure chests hidden throughout the three continents.

In Twilight Princess, pieces of Hawk Grass, the Horse Call and Wolf Link's howling serve as replacements for the ocarina.

Trivia

• In the Ocarina of Time Manga, Saria refers to the Fairy Ocarina as a flute.

Gallery

• Flute ALttP.png

  The Flute from A Link to the Past

• Link's Awakening - Ocarina.png

  Ocarina from the manual for Link's Awakening

• Ocarina LA.png

  Ocarina artwork from Link's Awakening

• Ocarinaflute.png

  The Ocarina of Wind from The Minish Cap

See Also

• Fairy Ocarina
• Ocarina of Time
• Ocarina of Wind
• Bone Ocarina

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