Giuseppe Donati
Illustration — Giuseppe Donati Giuseppe Donati (2 December 1836 – 14 February 1925) was an Italian musical instrument maker who invented the ocarina, a ceramic wind instrument based on the principle of a Helmholtz resonator. Donati was born in Budrio. Legend has it that he created his first "little goose" ("ocarina" in Italian dialect) in 1853, aged 17, whilst still working as a brickmaker.
Giuseppe Donati
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- 1836 · Budrio.
- Died
- 1925 · Milan.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Italy
- Occupation
- musician · musical instrument maker · inventor
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Illustration — Giuseppe Donati Giuseppe Donati (2 December 1836 – 14 February 1925) was an Italian musical instrument maker who invented the ocarina, a ceramic wind instrument based on the principle of a Helmholtz resonator. Donati was born in Budrio. Legend has it that he created his first "little goose" ("ocarina" in Italian dialect) in 1853, aged 17, whilst still working as a brickmaker.
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Giuseppe Donati died at Milan.
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His first ocarina-making workshop was in his hometown of Budrio. When he moved to larger premises in Bologna in 1878, a fellow musician of the Gruppo Ocarinistico, Cesare Vicinelli, continued the Budrio workshop. Donati died, aged 88, in Milan.
• Budrio Ocarina Museum
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- 1.Montagu, Jeremy. Vessel Flutes.
- 2.Liggins, David. The Ocarina – A Pictorial History. Ocarina Workshop. 2003. 9781871210248.
- 3.Franzoni, Gilberta. Bologna: una provincia cento musei : l'archeologia, le arti, le scienze, l'identità : guida. Edizioni Pendragon. 161. 2005. 978-88-8342-324-6.
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