Bart Hopkin

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Bart Hopkin is a builder of experimental musical instruments[1] and a writer and publisher on the subject. Hopkin runs the website windworld.com, which provides resources regarding unusual instruments.

Hopkin published the magazine

plosive aerophones and marimbas.[2] For these publications, Hopkin regularly asks experts on the subject to co-write the books, such as Carl Dean for the book about how to build and tune marimbas. Getting a Bigger Sound is a book Bart Hopkin wrote with Robert Cain and Jason Lollar about amplification of sound sources with several types of pickups ranging from piezo disc pickups to common pickups often used in electric guitars. Jason Lollar is a known builder of hand-wound electro-magnetic pickups
.

Besides writing, he has also built several experimental musical instruments such as wooden saxophones, the Bell Tree, harmonic zithers, the Savart Wheel, the Trillium Harp, the Trillium Cluster, and many other instruments that are difficult to categorize.[3]

In 2012, he published the book

microtonal guitars. The book was simultaneously released with 60 sound samples on bandcamp[4] and SoundCloud
.

Publications

  • Experimental Musical Instruments, magazine, 70 issues appeared as a printed publication between 1985 and 1999, later on re-issued as well on CD-ROM

Books

CDs

  • INSTUMENTARIUM HOPKINIS, Bart Hopkin Plays Invented Instruments, 2002
  • AFTER SEVEN YEARS, Guitar Music from Bart Hopkin, 2003
  • BOSSAS, BALLADS, AND BLUES, Dale Polissar, clarinet, and Bart Hopkin, guitar, 2004
  • 21 WAYS OF LOOKING AT THINGS, Sound Instruments Designed by Bart Hopkin, 2007
  • MELANGE, Dale Polissar, clarinet, and Bart Hopkin, guitar, 2009

See also

References

  1. ^ "list of Hopkin's instruments". Archived from the original on January 27, 2012. Retrieved November 18, 2011.
  2. ^ "list of Hopkin's publications". Archived from the original on January 28, 2012. Retrieved November 18, 2011.
  3. ^ "INVENTED INSTRUMENTS | Bart Hopkin". Archived from the original on April 17, 2012. Retrieved August 7, 2012.
  4. ^ "Nice Noise". Nicenoise.bandcamp.com. Retrieved May 4, 2022.

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