Oh, this was by no means meant to degrade the idea of picking up something from pop culture. It was meant to capture that weird situation or feeling when seemingly the whole world connects something you like to some particular item from popular culture that you don't know about. That's not supposed to say that those people are wrong in any way, but it does make it kind of hard or annoying to discuss that topic. Should you then dump your hobby to play the recorder instead? I mean, maybe, if you live in a four-panel-world that needs a punchline ;). Playing OOT would of course have been a solution as well, especially since Zelda games are time well spent, but wouldn't have been as funny.

Also leaving this here. https://youtu.be/79Y6Q47qjlw

I love it.

Woah! Just like in Guitar Hero!!

Yeah the extended range sweet potato ocarina is pretty specific, if you go buy an ocarina uninfluenced by Zelda it's way more likely that you'd get a medallion ocarina.
Hey, is Songbird Ocarina still around? I miss mine.

It’s an old ass instrument so it had the name long before tape recorders. As for other kind of recording, Wikipedia says:

The instrument name recorder derives from the Latin recordārī (to call to mind, remember, recollect), by way of Middle-French recorder(before 1349; to remember, to learn by heart, repeat, relate, recite, play music) and its derivative recordeur (c. 1395; one who retells, a minstrel). The association between the various, seemingly-disparate, meanings of recorder can be attributed to the role of the medieval jongleur in learning poems by heart and later reciting them, sometimes with musical accompaniment.

Millions of American children are (were?) given these in the third grade and yes they all call them that

As a native English speaker, I had the same thought.

Yup, That’s a straight flute.

Wow, TIL!

Also the ubiquitous theme from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Also the rest of the snow, where the Ocarina represents Angel Eyes (the Bad)

goes back to the ocarina

I still wish there was a real instrument that sounds as cool as that app

a real instrument

Like... An ocarina?

so I thought it was a real instrument

..... It is a real instrument. Like over 5,000 years old.

This has to be a copypasta

Can't tell if sarcasm/trolling, but just in case:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocarina