Anita’s Ocarinas
Anita Feng’s stoneware ocarinas, thrown on a wheel in Issaquah, and the copy of her site the museum keeps.
A note from the museum
This page is the museum’s account of a website it has preserved. It is not by the maker, and nothing from the site is republished here.
Anita Feng made stoneware ocarinas in Issaquah, Washington, and sold them from anitasocarinas.com, which is gone. She threw them by hand on a wheel rather than pressing them in moulds — an unusual way to make an ocarina, and the reason her instruments look like nobody else’s.
She is a Zen teacher, at the Blue Heron Zen Community in Seattle, and left ocarinas to make clay buddhas.
Two things place her. A Seattle Times piece of February 2, 1999 describes the Zelda craze sending customers to her — the same years, and the same city, as ClayZeness Whistleworks across the water. And Alan Albright names her in his 1999 memoir, as someone who “first worked out of Rhode Island”. The Pacific Northwest in the 1990s had more than one ocarina maker in it, and they knew of each other.
What the museum holds
134 files, 1.2 MB.
| 99 | pages |
| 2 | pages transcribed to plain text |
| 8 | photographs and illustrations |
| 4 | sound recordings |
| 19 | small images that are page furniture rather than pictures — buttons, rules, spacers |
Saved from the Internet Archive in September 2026; its captures run from 2001 to 2021 across about 107 days. A small site, and the four sound recordings in it are the kind of thing that exists nowhere else once the host is gone.
Rights, and what is published
Nothing, yet — and in this case that is a matter of days rather than of principle. A dead site with a living, reachable maker is the best shape a problem like this can take: there is no heir to trace and no judgement call to make, only a letter to write.
If this is your work, Anita, and you would like it published here, kept privately, corrected, or deleted, please write to theocarinamuseum@gmail.com.