OCHARINE AND TERRACOTTA MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS MUSEUM  Budrio

Entitled to Franco Ferri, co-founder of the Municipal School of Ocarina, the Museo dell'Ocarina and of the Terracotta Musical Instruments, presents hundreds of pieces including musical instruments and work, photographs, records, sheet music, documents that tell the story of the small flute in terracotta, the ocarina, for which the name of Budrio has become famous in the world.
Among the others in the exhibition are important examples of the first ocarinas, dating back to the mid-nineteenth century, handmade by the inventor Giuseppe Donati; then again those of the early twentieth century created by Cesare Vicinelli, called the Stradivari of the ocarina and finally the instruments decorated with liberty friezes and equipped with a metal plunger made by Alberto Mezzetti, who made ocarinas from 1870 to 1912.

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