NEW WOODSTOCK CASTINGS - JAPANESE WINDBELL - BEAUTIFUL!

FOR SALE


This traditional windbell looks delicate, but is made of durable cast metal.

Woodstock Castings - Timeless designs in cast metal.
The art of casting metal has been around for thousands of years. When heated to extremely high temperatures, metal will reach a molten state and can be poured into a mold. In this way, the ancients were able to create items of both enormous utility and great beauty. The same basic processes are used in foundries today.


Dimensions:
13.5 in. Overall Length

Materials:
Cast brass

FROM WOODSTOCK CHIMES WEBSITE:

 When Woodstock Chimes first began producing windchimes in 1979, most windchimes were made by artists who created visually beautiful chimes with little consideration for the sound. Woodstock Chimes elevated the windchime into an item that combines beauty with musical relevance, using a technique that precision tunes the company's windchimes to musical scales. "Windchimes are musical instruments that are played by the wind," says founder Garry Kvistad, who taught collegiate music classes for many years, and is also a musician with the group NEXUS and a percussionist with the Steve Reich and Musicians ensemble. "When you're purchasing a windchime, you should close your eyes and listen to it. If you have an immediate, positive reaction to the sound, it's an ideal windchime for you." 

For reasons of musical purity, we tune all of our products to an ancient system known as just intonation.  Therefore, many of the notes used on Woodstock Chimes fall between the notes of the piano which is tuned to a modern system called equal temperament.  This makes our products not only authentic when we tune to ancient scales, but also gives the sound its beautiful and unique quality for which we are known.  Each and every tube or rod used in our special chimes is individually tuned to exacting frequencies to assure the best possible result.  This means that tubes tuned to the same note found on other Woodstock Chimes will be in tune with each other but might be slightly different in length.  Other windchime makers often cut to exacting lengths but the sound will vary due to the slight inconsistencies of the tubes (wall thickness, diameter, temperament of metal).  While our products are mostly enjoyed in homes and gardens, many musicians use them as well.  Since the intervals don’t always match the modern system of tuning of the piano exactly, trained ears can appreciate the difference and adapt to the ancient system.  For those wanting to explore this ancient tuning system of just intonation in great detail, I suggest the following: http://www.kylegann.com/tuning.html.