Does anyone remember the MSLP instrument library by Erick Kvist that came out about 5 years ago? It had a ton of Creative Commons instruments of widely variable quality. Some of them were very nice, while others were more audio toys. I've converted 40 to Kontakt 5 of which I think a few are very nice.
A flute with over 900 samples, 180 megs compressed. There are vibrato and non-vibrato modes with 3 velocity layers, round robin staccatos and more.
A trombone with 650 samples, 84 megs, 3 velocity layers, staccato round robins, gliss, swells and more.
A cello weighing in at 68 megs with 800+ samples and 3 velocity layers in sustain and staccato and more.
The fully sampled Piano Grand Soft it has one soft velocity layer so it works nicely as an intimate piano.
And for some of your assorted Idiophone needs (we all have them). A Marimba and Xylophone that are fully sampled with two velocity layers and mute layers and a Vibrophone with only 1 velocity layer but long, short, mute and bowed samples.
Strum Acoustic and Electric guitars.
There is also a collection of sampled toys including a fun noisy 3 layer toy piano, a melodica and a funky hippo harmonica.

 
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Thank you bigcat!
 
Will check them out in more detail on the weekend.
 
Must have taken a lot of time for you to do this for us.
 
Thanks again!

Thanks for the bump. Up to 35 now.
It takes a while, but nowhere close to the time of trying to build instruments from scratch. Erick Kvist did an impressive sampling job with something like 15,000 individual samples, but they are in Reason format and numbered with no notation of the note. After doing the Sax by hand, I discovered that Kontakt would convert them over. Life got much easier! Oddly they often convert with the loudest layer being sustain and the softer layer being staccato and no velocity control. So I have to create separate keyswitched layers and add velocity to everything.
Anyway it's actually quite fun. If or more correctly when you find errors let me know. I really haven't tested them thoroughly enough yet, I've been to caught up in the conversion process.

Wahoo! Downloading them now.
 
Bob Bone
 

Thanks for giving them a try Bob. Good timing as I just finished the project up and now I have the weekend to watch the third season of Newhart. Yup I'm the one fan of the Vermont Newhart show.
 
If nothing else there are a lot of Jingle Bells in there to layer with the half dozen other Jingle Bell freebies everyone gives away over Christmas. Now you can get 16.667% more jingled.

Thank you from me too. Some these will fill some gaps in my Kontakt library.