Giuseppe Donati
Giuseppe Donati
Giuseppe Donati (2 December 1836 – 14 February 1925) was the inventor of the classical 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. 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, , continued the Budrio workshop. Donati died, aged 88, in Milan.
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- Italian musical instrument makers
- Ocarina makers
- 19th-century Italian inventors
- 1836 births
- 1925 deaths
- 19th-century Italian musicians