Giuseppe Donati

Italian musical instrument maker

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.