(In no particular order)

Ocarina Club - An ocarina discussion group.

OcarinaLand - Fingering charts, articles, sheet music, tablature, and MIDIs.

Mr. Kenji Ogawa's Ocarinas - The best sounding ocarina from Japan.

Anita's Ocarinas - Classic style 10 hole stoneware ocarinas made on the potter's wheel.

Clayzeness Whistleworks - Ocarinas and porcelain flutes by Sandi and Richard Schmidt. Zelda ocarinas, articles, photos of their large ocarina collection. eBay auctions

Ocarina Workshop - They sell all of John Langley's ocarina models, plus a series of ocarina tutorial books that have both ocarina tablature and standard musical notation. Great for schools!

Charlie Hind - Rich-looking (and sounding) hardwood ocarinas made by hand. Double ocarinas too!

John Taylor - The inventor of the 4 hole fingering system that is now used worldwide. Figure 8 and "forward blown'" ocarinas and sound clips.

Theresa Bayer - These are truly "fine art." Sculptural ocarinas with mythological, fantasy, whimsical,and classical themes. All originals, no two are alike. eBay auctions

Spencer Register - No web site as yet. The only maker in the United States that makes the 12 hole "Japanese" style ocarina. eBay auctions

Barry Hall's Burnt Earth Gallery features innovative ceramic musical instruments that he designed himself.

Bryan Mumford, Crackpot Inventor (The Amazing Puny Tune Miniature Flute)

Puny Tunes "The Wee Whistle" (Rob Taggart)

Whimsical Whistles - Stoneware and porcelain ocarinas made by Cathy Faber in animal forms.

Brian Ransom - Ceramic musical instruments of all kinds - even a blue clay trumpet! CD of his music.

Sixth Street Pottery - Sweet potato and pendant ocarinas, water whistles and more. aBay auctions

WoodenOcarina.com

Ishibashi Music Store

PAXPHIL CORPORATION (Korea)

Free Windy (Korea)

Double Wooden Ocarinas - These ocarinas are comfortable to hold snd beautifully made.

Terry Riley Vessel Flutes

Ocarina Workshop - Austria - Johann Rotter makes a wide variety of colorful ocarinas.

Robin Hodgkinson - Beautiful raku fired clay ocarinas and flutes.

Susan Rawcliffe designs and makes unusual ceramic wind instruments and also performs with them.

Whistleworks - John Barry's wonderful, whimsical animal ocarinas.

Ocarina di Budrio - Fabio Menaglio makes and sells the original Budrio ocarina.

Giorgio Pacchioni - maker of the classic 10 hole "Budrio style" ocarina, plus doubles and delightful figural ocarinas. Sound clips, too.

Songbird Ocarinas - ocarina playing tutorial plus more. Zelda ocarinas!

Linda P. Stauffer - Wonderful stoneware animal ocarinas.

Marie Picard - Exquiste musical sculptures

Taiwanese ocarinas

Eagle Ocarinas

St. Louis School of Music Ocarinas

Angel Sampedro del Rio makes ocarinas out of bamboo plus many other instruments.

Janie Rezner - hand built, sculpted "Harmonic Ocarinas" triple ocarinas.

Eagle Crest Arts - Stoneware animal ocarinas and whistles. They do custom work, too!

ELIAZ - Silver, brass, and unusual ceramic ocarinas. Doubles, too.

Chung-Han Workshop of Ocarina

World of Ocarina

Sound of Nature - sells traditional Chinese wind and string musical instruments from both the main stream and from ethnic minority groups, all made by professional masters.

Aketa Ocarinas

Gakki -

Fire Om Earth Studio

New Zealand ocaronas

Rare Breed Arts - One-of-a-kind, no molds are used.

Island Ocarinas

Dragon Ocarinas

Ocarinaworld


Ocarina Information Sites

Ethno-Smithy - Site of Russian folk-musician and multiinstrumentslist Mitya Kuznetsov. Features Russian folk music and instruments. Fabulous ocarinas and sound clips.

Chu Po Ming has a large collection of sweet potato style ocarinas.

Roberto Velázquez Cabrera

Ocarina Classica - The ensemble "Ocarina Classica" is composed of musicians that seek and propose the repertoire of the "golden age" of the ocarina.

Suimin's Ocarina Road

SOJIRO

Aiko's Ocarina School

Aiko Visits Budrio

From Mud To Music (book)

Ceramic Musical Instruments article by Richard Baxter


Ocarina and Whistle Making Instruction

Kenji Ogawa's Ocarina Room- Practical information about the many aspects of ocarina playing and construction. He has published a lavishly illustrated book (text in Japanese). It is available at Muramatsu Flute. E-mail them for pricing and payment instructions.

Russian site that shows the sequence of preparing the clay mouthpiece for an ocarina or ceramic flute.

Making a Little Mexica Flute by Roberto Velázquez Cabrera

Making an Ocarina Ciuce (Mixtec)

Helmholtz Resonators - Text in Spanish

The Clay Pot That Sings: The Ocarina of Time by Ray and Lee Dessy

Experimental Musical Instruments - "Books, CDs and More for Unusual Instruments and Instrument Making."

The Art of Making Ocarinas

Verne H. Bohlender's ocarina making page. Here he shows how he makes a clay ocarina.

Dwight U. Bartholomew's - step by step instruction.

Ocarina making pages

Kurt Posch - Distinctive ceramic ocarinas. Also a section on ocarina construction. Text in German.

Nasco Artworks lesson plan - Make a whistle with polymer clay. Page links to illustrated instructions. (PDF)

Make an Ocarina With Card Stock

Chris Henley's whistle making page.

Ocarina Making Tutorial