This Italian Town Really, Really Likes Ocarinas

For thousands of years, humans have played music using some version of the ocarina, a rounded wind instrument that produces a flute-like sound. In China, ocarina-like instruments date back to 5,000 BC, and the Maya and the Aztecs used them in religious ceremonies. But the modern ocarina, a sweet potato–shaped instrument with 10 to 12 holes, was inv...