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During the trip the Balfron pupils visited stalls in the zoo with authentic jade art, ocarinas, badges with the animals from the Chinese zodiac and other Chinese gifts.

Mexican Day of the Dead artifacts (with family altars dedicated to dead ancestors with flowers, food, incense, religious figurines, and photographs), Mayan Hieroglyphics carved in stone, myths of transformation often with zoomorphic attributes, sculptures and paintings of woman as divine from India, the Hindu god Krishna configured as a flute player (without the actual flute), ritual Chinese burial ware adorned with swirling clouds and mythical beasts (from one of the world's oldest civilizations) to appease the gods and ancestral spirits, and clay ocarinas performed for ritual dancing and ceremonies throughout Mexico and Central America are among the many symbolic objects used in rituals around the world.

Mayans built several types of instruments including rattling gourds filled with seeds or stones, turtle shells played with deer antlers, as well as whistles, ocarinas, modified seashells, and other wind instruments, said Zalaquett.

"They are in costume, they all get into character and they play a variety of instruments from the ocarinas - a whistle - to the trumpet, accordion and ukulele.

The materials and technique used by Onofrio Chieco will be examined in detail showing pictures of his clay whistles, ocarinas and sculptures with incorporated handmade sound-producing devices.

A magical mixture of Native American Flute, bone whistles & ocarinas, Seiden's sensual playing and wonderful compositions envelope the listener and touch the heart.

BCMG's amazingly gifted percussionists, chromonicas and ocarinas expertly added to their"kitchen", were joined by the other reason for the necessary encore, the endearingly charming mezzo Katalin Karolyi whose infectiously communicative skills inspired the composition.

"If you went into the other room you'd see a whole shelf of wacky instruments: a hurdy-gurdy, various hammer dulcimers, train whistles, ocarinas, music boxes, antique crank toys that make musical sounds....