Evert Kallman plays the Sweet Potato?

 A second cousin of mine shared this picture of her father, Evert Hakan Kallman, playing the "Sweet Potato" in his Salvation Army uniform.

PLAYING WHAT???

Google informed me that  Sweet Potato is another name for a type of Ocarina and again....

WHAT??

Thank you Wikipedia! 

"The ocarina is a wind musical instrument; it is a type of vessel flute.^[1] Variations exist, but a typical ocarina is an enclosed space with four to twelve finger holes and a mouthpiece that projects from the body. It is traditionally made from clay or ceramic, but other materials are also used, such as plastic, wood, glass, metal, or bone.

There are many different styles of ocarinas varying in shape and the number of holes:

• Transverse (Sweet potato) – This is the best-known style of ocarina. It has a rounded shape and is held with two hands horizontally. Depending on the number of holes, the player opens one more hole than the previous note to ascend in pitch. The two most common transverse ocarinas are 10-hole (invented by Giuseppe Donati in Italy) and 12-hole. They have a range of between an octave plus a fourth and an octave plus a minor sixth."

This is all I needed, or cared, to know but if you need, or care, to know?

Knock yourself out and click here →  HISTORY OF THE SWEET POTATO OCARINA 

My Father's cousin

Evert Hakan Kallman

b. Aug 8,1905 Sya, Östergötland, Sweden

d. Mar 18, 1980 Minneapolis, Minnesota USA

Well, back to my family history,