Hamlett Ocarinas
Richard Hamlett’s ocarina site, the interview of his the museum already publishes, and the permission it owes him.
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.
Richard Hamlett made ocarinas and sold them from hamlettocarinas.com, which is gone. The last announcement on it is dated February 2018; a forum thread afterwards asks “Hamlett Ocarinas, where did you go?” and does not get an answer. He also had a YouTube channel.
The museum already publishes an interview with him — one of the seven preserved from The Ocarina Repository, where he talked about his instruments in 2013.
What the museum holds
605 files, 13.6 MB.
| 251 | pages |
| 2 | pages transcribed to plain text |
| 86 | photographs and illustrations |
| 1 | video clips |
| 13 | PDF documents |
| 152 | small images that are page furniture rather than pictures — buttons, rules, spacers |
Saved from the Internet Archive in September 2026; its captures run from 2013 to 2025 across about 230 days. The site was built on a shop platform, so most of its pages are addresses with query strings rather than files, and the copy reflects that — a good deal of it is the furniture of an online shop.
The thirteen PDFs are the part worth singling out. Documents of this kind on a maker’s site are usually fingering charts and instructions, the things a buyer was meant to keep and nobody thinks to archive.
Rights, and what is published
Nothing from the site itself.
The interview is a more pointed case, and the museum would rather say so than leave it. It was published under the only terms available: Cambell Baxter, who ran The Ocarina Repository and made the interview, could not be found, so the page names him, links the original, and invites its own removal. But the answers in that interview are Richard Hamlett’s. He is a second rights holder in it, and unlike Baxter he may well be reachable.
So the order of events here is the wrong way round, and the museum knows it. Asking him would turn one of those seven judgement calls into actual consent. That letter is owed.
If you are Richard Hamlett, or know how to reach him: please write to theocarinamuseum@gmail.com.