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Skipper Custom Instruments - GalleryOverviewThe best introduction to musical instruments on the Web is through pictures and sound. As you can see from the sidebar at the left, we have set up a variety of stringed instruments for your review. We invite you to look through our gallery -- and listen to our sound samples. We were fortunate enough to have Shawn Craver play several of our instruments
Also, new to the website, are sound clips from Richard DiAdamo, retired violinist from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and Scott McMillion, a talented bluegrass musician formerly with the west-coast band 78RPM. Each sample is fairly short, but long enough for you to get a fair idea of the sound of the instrument. In order to spare you a lengthy download time, we have set the samples up as a link rather than embedding them on the page. They will play on the default mp3 player on your computer, so be sure that you have an mp3 player installed and set as the default prior to trying to listen! |
in a living room setting one evening, and we captured his performance on a
hand-held mp3 recorder. As a result, variations in sound and touch
of the instruments are because of variations between instruments, not because of
differing musician styles.