When the Colonel and "John Doe" break out their instruments for a jam session, is the Colonel's doohicky an ocarina?
BTW, what a great character! I think Dana Carvey mined his voice patterns for a number of his characters.
A ocarina is a hollowed out sweet potato and it was played by Walter Brennan's Col.
Can you believe Brennan was only47 in this flick?
It's not a hollowed out sweet potato, it's nicknamed that because it looks like one.
People aged much quicker back then, plus he was made up as a hobo. Cooper was 40 and looked 10 years older than that, by contemporary standards.