Hopkin Instrumentarium: Handsome Dan sample--990933775 The new "Layer Builder" system

The new "Layer Builder" system let's you easily create an endless variety of unique complex sonic flavors

with round-robin variations and multiple dynamics and voicings

eerie industrial percussion

New Word Master System - an easy-to-use graphical interface that lets you choose from dozens of sustaining marcato words and staccato syllables on the fly

Hopkin Instrumentarium: Handsome Dan sample--990933775 The new "Layer Builder" systemClick Here for MP3 Demos [split] Handsome Dan is an experimental custom creation from the mind of master instrument inventor Bart Hopkin: A stringed Zither with a unique twist. The key is a clever system for picking up and isolating the harmonic resonances in unplayed strings. This flat wooden sound box has 14 strings, with a center bridge dividing them into two segments. A magnetic pickup is placed on one side, but the strings are played primarily on