User:Awilley/Yama no Ongakuka (Mountain Musician)

Yama no Ongakuka (山の音楽家) or Mountain Musicians is a Japanese children's song that is widely used as a demo song on many Casio synthesizer and Casiotone keyboards.

Yama no Ongakukia, based on the German folk song Ich bin ein musikante (I am a musician), was arranged by Katsuhisa Hattori and was first aired by Japanese public broadcasting organization NHK's Minna no Uta program in 1964. The lyrics by Mizuta Shisen depict forest animals playing instruments (squirrel on violin, rabbit on piano, bird on violin, raccoon on drum).

During the 1980s the song was included as a demo song on many Casio synthesizer keyboards. On the widely-distributed demo ROM-Pack RO-551 the song was confusingly titled Unterlanders Heimweh; however on the older Casio VL-1 keyboard the song was titled German folk song.