How to Play 3 Blind Mice on the 6 Hole Ocarina

About 3 Blind Mice

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Three Blind Mice is one of the oldest printed rounds in the English language. A version appears in Thomas Ravenscroft’s collection Deuteromelia, published in London in 1609, meaning people have been singing it for more than four hundred years. Like other rounds it is built for overlapping voices, and its lyrics are famously grim for a children’s song, with the farmer’s wife and her carving knife.

On the six-hole ocarina the tune covers a full octave from low C to high C. The tumbling three-note opening keeps returning, so once that little falling figure is under your fingers, much of the melody is already familiar.

3 Blind Mice Ocarina Tab

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