Tenrai Ocarina
A southern California workshop founded in 2010, and the copy the museum keeps of its website.
A note from the museum
This page is the museum’s account of a website it has preserved. It is not by the people who made it, and nothing from the site is republished here.
Tenrai Ocarina sold handmade ocarinas from tenraiocarina.com. Its own About page gives the founding: “In late 2010, Tenrai Ocarina was born.” The earlier version of the site adds that it was a company founded in southern california. The site is gone.
Almost every maker whose site this museum holds began before 1998. Tenrai began twelve years after — which makes it one of the few American workshops the museum has preserved that was founded in the world Ocarina of Time left behind, and its flagship instrument was a replica of the one from the game.
That instrument is also the most interesting thing the site recorded. It carried nine holes, and its description sets out an unusual piece of design: an English pendant fingering system given two sub-holes below the tonic and one above the octave, so that a pendant could cover the range players expect from a twelve-hole transverse. The catalogue around it ran from six-hole pendants upward through a thirteen-hole transverse.
The site was rebuilt at least once. The first was hand-written PHP with a one-page shop; the second was a Squarespace site with a collection, a journal and a media page. The journal’s last entries date from 2018. The last capture showing a working site is from 1 September 2021; for years afterwards the front page returned 403 Forbidden while the machinery behind it still answered, which is what a site looks like when it has been switched off rather than taken down.
What the museum holds
69 files, 2.6 MB.
| 28 | pages |
| 1 | pages transcribed to plain text |
| 23 | photographs and illustrations |
| 5 | small images that are page furniture rather than pictures — buttons, rules, spacers |
Saved from the Internet Archive in September 2026.
Rights, and what is published
Nothing.
The museum believes the maker is living and has not yet asked. Preserving something and publishing it are different acts, and it will do the first without the second.
If this is your work, please write to theocarinamuseum@gmail.com — the museum would be glad to be corrected, and gladder still to be told the rest of the story.