Articles

Research and notes on ocarinas, their makers, and their history.

Written here

The museum’s own research: instruments in the collection, the people who made them, and what the documents say. Where someone else’s words are quoted, they are quoted with permission and the permission is stated on the page.

Preserved from other sites

Writing by other people, published first on websites that have since gone, and kept here because otherwise it goes with them. Each carries a credit naming its author and linking the original, and each invites its own removal.

Where the writing came from

Each of these describes one holding — whose writing it is, how much of it the museum has, how it survived, and on what basis anything from it is published.

• ClayZeness Ocarinas — Sandi and Richard Schmidt, Seattle.
• Ocarina Originators — Barry “Baz” Jennings and John Taylor, who originated the English four-hole ocarina.
• The Ocarina Repository — Cambell Baxter’s interviews with makers.
• Alan Albright — the odd one out, and worth a sentence. The museum holds his memoir and his letters, but what is published from them sits under Written here, because the museum wrote those four articles from his words with his permission rather than reprinting his pages. The holding is his; the articles are the museum’s.

Everything the museum has copied, published or not, is listed on Preserved Websites.