“I’ve been watching this talented and extremely amiable man from Japan for many months on YouTube. He makes Ocarinas with almost anything, although vegetables are his speciality. Heita only speaks in his mother tongue on his videos, but he mentions briefly in English writing that “I make vegetables musical instrument. Because I have gone to work in daytime, I do not have enough free time. I am playing the vegetable musical instruments on holiday.”
His wife and daughter often appear in his videos, accompanying his Ocarina jingles on the piano and teasing their pet cat and dog, so it appears that part of his success comes from his ‘family man‘, and ‘must be cool to have a dad like that‘ aura. Perhaps the best examples of Heita’s talents can be seen in the videos below, where in one, he demonstrates how to make an Ocarina with an egg, and the other, a display of different vegetable Ocarinas.
I hope you enjoy Heita as much as I do!”
How to make an egg ocarina
“I made an ocarina with an egg. I show how to make.”
Introduction of handmade vegetable musical instruments
“I introduce the vegetable musical instruments made this time. There are eight kinds of vegetable musical instruments. Please enjoy various sound”
Here is Heita’s own translation of what he is saying in the video above:
“Then, let’s introduce the vegetable musical instruments that can have been done this time.
It is a carrot ocarina first.
And, it is an ocarina of a white radish in Japan that can have done this time.
The octave is geted down from the carrot ocarina.
The broccoli ocarina was made.
A good sound is not heard because only such a broccoli was obtained this time. And, a carrot ocarina of the slide type and this carrot ocarina is different the sound hole. When the breath is put here, something is heard. It shaped ..so…
The paprika was punctured. When the breath is put here, such a sound is heard. It is an owl. Carrot panpipe. When the breath is put in this, such a sound is heard. Similary asparagus panpipe was made. However, a good sound is not heard. It is a trumpet of the cucumber and the paprika in the end. There were musical instruments that looked alike also in the vegetable orchestra. Moreover, when musical instruments can be done, I introduces it.
Thank you“
