price: $54.66 Last updated: 08/01/2016
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- Medium heroic windbell is 24.5-inch long and 4-inch diameter
- Handcrafted steel bell with deep resonance; plays beautifully in the wind
- Antique copper finish adds a rustic element to your garden
- Use to call the kids in for supper, or as an alternative doorbell
- Woodstock chimes are known around the world for their innovative design, superior quality, and beautiful sound; hand-crafted, musically-tuned, created by grammy award-winning musician and instrument maker garry kvistad
Product Description
Handcrafted, antique copper powder-coated steel Heroic Windbell
has a charm that is both contemporary and rustic. The design and bold
tones will add visual and aural art to your home or garden. Use it to
call the kids in for supper, or as an alternative doorbell. Available in
large, 40-inch long and 6.75-inch diameter, and medium, 24.5-inch long
and 4-inch diameter. Woodstock Chimes are the original, musically-tuned,
high-quality windchimes known worldwide for their superior sound. When
listening to a Woodstock Chime, you hear a fine musical instrument
played by the wind, perfectly hand-tuned using the ancient system of
"just intonation" based on natural harmonics. This means the frequencies
at which the different tubes vibrate are related to one another by
simple whole-number ratios. Tones that are related in this way produce
the most beautiful musical intervals. The sonic effect is exceptionally
pure and soothing. More than 30 years ago, the first Woodstock Chime was
created by founder and owner Garry Kvistad from an aluminum lawn chair
he found in a landfill. As a professional musician and instrument
designer, he was fascinated by the Scales of Olympos, a 7th century
pentatonic scale that can't be played on a modern piano. Garry had the
idea to cut and tune the lawn chair tubes to the exact frequency of the
ancient scale. The resulting Chimes of Olympos was the first Woodstock
Chime and is still one of our bestselling windchimes. Garry and his wife
Diane founded Woodstock Percussion, Inc. in 1979 and it remains a
family-owned business in New York's Hudson Valley.