Hopkin Instrumentarium: Woodentines is part of Soundiron's Hopkin Instrumentarium collection of instruments built by Bart Hopkin — a genuinely significant figure in experimental instrument design, whose work the label documents as covering previously unpublished instruments, unusual sound experiments, and random products while trying to emerge new sounds across the KLANG comparison point, and whose pieces in this collection include The U, Rumba Boxes, Icicles & Pop Ice, Handsome Dan, and Flat Gongs. Its title describes the family directly: a lamellophone whose tines are made of wood rather than metal — the choice of material being the whole design idea, because a wooden tine is lighter and less stiff than a steel one, producing a softer, shorter, and more breathy tone with much less of the glassy resonance that defines a metal kalimba. That material difference explains the instrument's character and its use: where a metal lamellophone rings and sustains, a wooden one contacts more abruptly and decays quickly, which makes it suited to percussive, rhythmic, and textural playing rather than melodic sustain. The library is listed as Kontakt Player / NKS at $39, so the free Kontakt Player supports it — unlike much of Soundiron's catalogue, where standard open-format libraries require the full retail version of Kontakt, since the free Kontakt "Player" and "Add Library" import process do not support them. Instruments in the collection generally supply multi-sampled articulations including plucks and strikes, custom sound-designed FX and ambient presets, an adaptable LFO system with selectable shape, modulation target, speed, intensity, tempo-syncing, and fade-in time, 12 low-pass, high-pass, and FX filters with assignable modulation targets, and a customizable arpeggiator offering a velocity table and control over arp direction, timing, swing, randomization, and duration, alongside a key and scale lock system. It sits within a collection where the Lamellophones bundle includes all of our unique Hopkin Instrumentarium plucked idiophone libraries, plus two new exclusive instruments: Cat's Face and CÍque, offering over 100 custom FX presets, at $199. It suits film and television scoring, experimental and world music production, and sound design, and the free Player compatibility makes it an accessible entry into the collection. #HopkinInstrumentarium #Woodentines #Soundiron #BartHopkin #Lamellophone #WoodenTines #PluckedIdiophone #ExperimentalInstruments #WorldInstruments #Kontakt #KontaktPlayer #NKS #Arpeggiator #KeyAndScaleLock #LamellophonesBundle #FilmScore #Television #WorldMusic #SoundDesign #MusicProduction #FLStudio #AbletonLive #LogicPro #Cubase #Reaper