Clay-Wood-Winds
What the museum holds of clay-wood-winds.com, Robin L. Hodgkinson’s studio site, and on what terms.
A note from the museum
This page records what the museum holds of a website that is no longer his, and what it may do with it. It is not by the maker, and nothing from the site is republished here.
The museum’s account of his work, with a chronology, is at Clay-Wood-Winds: Robin Hodgkinson.
Robin L. Hodgkinson has made wind instruments of clay since the 1970s, from a one-man studio called Clay-Wood-Winds in the village of Haydenville in western Massachusetts, in the foothills of the Berkshires.
What the site held
A working studio’s catalog, written by the maker, and unusually precise about the instruments. Four ocarina sizes — Sopranino, Soprano, Alto and Tenor — each given dimensions, key, range, and price. Six-hole transverse flutes in F and G, with bore, tuning, and fingering described. The Spirit Vessels, specified down to which hand plays which intervals. An artist’s statement naming the museum collections he measured instruments in. A page on exhibitions and the craft-show circuit. And a page on why he fires in raku, which is the best writing on the site.
It also advertised a spiral-bound Songbook for Four Hole Ocarina, with fingering diagrams for twenty-eight Anglo-American folk songs. Whether a copy survives anywhere is not known.
The domain is no longer his. The last capture of his own site is from February 7, 2011; by September 2015 the domain was for sale. It has since passed through other hands, and by 2022 it was a search-engine content farm publishing pieces with titles like “10 Facts You Didn’t Know About The Water Temple From Ocarina Of Time”. Those pages are at the address he used to hold, and they have nothing to do with him.
What the museum holds
1462 files, 70.2 MB.
| 1062 | pages |
| 66 | photographs and illustrations |
| 230 | small images that are page furniture rather than pictures — buttons, rules, spacers |
Saved from the Internet Archive in September 2026. His own pages were captured from 2000 to 2011; everything captured from 2015 on belongs to others who held the domain after him. The only thing separating the two is the date each page was captured, which is why this mirror’s manifest matters more than most.
The first crawl was incomplete and the second one fixed it. A bug stopped the crawler at ocarinas.htm, so everything alphabetically after it was missing — the ocarina catalog itself, the artist’s statement, the process page, the transverse flutes, the Spirit Vessel specifications and the sitemap. 563 files were recovered on re-running. Nothing written from the incomplete copy turned out to be wrong, but a great deal had been absent.
What the museum holds back, and why
His contact page carries a postal address and a telephone number. They stay in the private copy, on the same principle applied to every living person here.
The content-farm pages are held but disowned. They are in the copy because they were at the address. They are not Clay-Wood-Winds, they are not presented as such, and nothing from them will ever be quoted as his.
Rights, and what is published
Nothing from the site is published. He is living, and he has not been asked.
If this is your work, Mr. Hodgkinson, and you would like it published here, kept privately, or corrected, please write to theocarinamuseum@gmail.com.