Wind Chimes
We stock a wide variety of wind chimes from industry mainstays Woodstock Chimes, who have been offering high quality chimes at affordable prices since 1979 and based out of New York’s Hudson Valley region. In 2019 we added high end chimes from Music of the Spheres, who handcraft their amazing wind chimes one at a time down in Austin, TX. Every last part of chime from them is made in the United States, including the box that they come in!
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Music of the Spheres
Each one of the Music of the Spheres Pentatonic wind chimes are individually handcrafted in the USA. Tempered aluminum alloy tubing is custom manufactured to their exacting specifications and will never rust. The corrosion-protective finish preserves the wind chime's appearance and increases durability in hostile outdoor environments, including salt air & even acid rain. Tough synthetic cordage is highly resistant to abrasion, ultra-violet degradation, rot and mildew. Central tube suspension with smoothly polished tube ends prevent cord abrasion typical of other, less labor-intensive tubular wind chimes suspension techniques. The major pentatonic scale in root position in the key of A and in the mezzo and tenor sizes it contains all the notes of "Amazing Grace." The windcatcher, of the same finish and material as the tubes, is the ideal size, weight, and shape for optimal chime performance in 8 - 10 mph wind velocity. The windcatcher hook assembly provides simple but effective method of varying the wind chime's activity level.
Woodstock Chimes
In 1979, Grammy Award-winning musician and instrument designer Garry Kvistad created the first Woodstock Chime from an aluminum lawn chair he found in a landfill. Fascinated by the Scale of Olympos, a 7th century pentatonic scale that can’t be played on a modern piano, Garry cut and tuned 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 their more popular musically-tuned wind chimes. Garry and his wife Diane still develop the chimes today as part of their family-owned business in New York’s Hudson Valley.