Peruvian Whistling Vessels
Daniel Statnekov’s site on pre-Columbian whistling vessels, and why a museum of ocarinas keeps a copy of it.
A note from the museum
This page is the museum’s account of a website it has preserved. It is not by its author, and nothing from it is republished here.
peruvianwhistles.com was Daniel Statnekov’s site on pre-Columbian whistling vessels — clay vessels from Peru that sound when air moves through them, made long before anything anyone would call an ocarina.
It is here for a particular reason. Baz Jennings linked to it from his own history of the ocarina, as “Exterior Link-Statnekov”. The museum publishes that history, so the museum publishes a page that depends on this one. A citation is only as durable as what it points at, and keeping a copy of the far end of a link is part of keeping the link.
What the museum holds
66 files, 348.0 KB.
| 28 | pages |
| 4 | pages transcribed to plain text |
| 32 | small images that are page furniture rather than pictures — buttons, rules, spacers |
Saved from the Internet Archive in September 2026; its captures run from 2003 to 2026 across about 115 days. Every image in it is small — this is a site from the era when pictures were kept under ten kilobytes — so what survives is mostly text.
Rights, and what is published
Nothing.
Whether Daniel Statnekov is living has not been established, and that is the question this page is waiting on. If he is, this is a letter rather than a judgement — the same course that worked with Sandi Schmidt and is open with Alan Albright.
If you are Daniel Statnekov, or know how to reach him or whoever now speaks for his work, please write to theocarinamuseum@gmail.com.