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<\/p><\/div>"} 1 Put your hands out in front of you. Hold your hands apart with your fingertips pointing towards the ceiling and your palms facing each other. Your thumbs should be pointing up as well. Essentially, it should look like you were just praying, then took your hands apart from each other.

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<\/p><\/div>"} 2 Bring your palms together as you turn your left hand. Move your hands toward each other as if clapping. As you do so, turn your left hand so that your fingers are pointing forward (rather than up at the ceiling). When your hands touch, the heel of your left hand (the firm part below the palm) should be against the fleshy part of your right thumb. These directions assume you're right-handed. If you're a leftie, it may be easier to reverse the references to the hands in this step as well as the following hands (i.e., turn your right hand in this step, etc.) Move your hands toward each other as if clapping. As you do so, turn your left hand so that your fingers are pointing forward (rather than up at the ceiling). When your hands touch, the heel of your left hand (the firm part below the palm) should be against the fleshy part of your right thumb.

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<\/p><\/div>"} 3 Wrap your hands around each other. Now, bend your fingers so that each hand is holding the other. The fingers of your right hand should curl in the space between your left thumb and index finger. The fingers of your left hand should curl around the side of your right pinkie (little finger).

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<\/p><\/div>"} 4 Line up your thumbs. Without taking your hands apart, adjust your thumbs so that the insides of both knuckles touch each other. Your thumbnails should be aligned next to your right index finger. There should now be a thin gap between your thumbs just a few millimeters wide. This is the sound hole — it's where you're blow air into the ocarina and also where the whistling noise will come out. Without taking your hands apart, adjust your thumbs so that the insides of both knuckles touch each other. Your thumbnails should be aligned next to your right index finger.

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<\/p><\/div>"} 5 Put your lips up to your knuckles. Part your lips slightly (as if to say "Oooh"). Place your lips so that the small "o" formed between them lines up just below your knuckles. In other words, your top lip should rest against your thumbs' knuckles and your bottom lip should be over the top half of the slit between your thumbs.

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<\/p><\/div>"} 6 Blow. Blow a steady stream of air into the very top part of the slit between your thumbs. In other words, you want to blow right below your thumbs' knuckles. You should hear a whistle that sounds a little like a hooting owl or a wooden train whistle if you did it right.[2] Do not vocalize in an attempt to make the bird call with your vocal cords (i.e., saying "ooh" or "ahh" as you blow). Blow noiselessly as if trying to get an empty bottle to whistle. Blow a steady stream of air into the very top part of the slit between your thumbs. In other words, you want to blow right below your thumbs' knuckles. You should hear a whistle that sounds a little like a hooting owl or a wooden train whistle if you did it right.