Buy Music of the Spheres Gypsy Mezzo Wind Chime (Model GM)Music of the Spheres Gypsy Mezzo Wind Chime (Model GM) Product Description:
- Handcrafted one at a time in the USA
- Aluminum and stainless steel
- UV stabilized synthetic thread and UV stabilized polethylene
- Musically Tuned
- Detachable windcatcher
Product Description
Music of the Sheres is known for the symphonic quality of its harmony which is tuned to the standard orchestral pitch. The chimes sing with a rich, lyrical blend of tones that resonate not only in the ear, but in the soul. This chime will add richness to your surroundings and melody with the breezes. Black in color and overall length of 50 inches, the Japanese Alto will blend in nicely where it is placed, yard, tree or patio. Uplifting and wonderful music that will enhance your space!
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Haunting - even eerie!
By P. Goddard
I purchased both the Mezzo and Soprano version of the Gypsy chimes for a very unusual purpose. I couldn't possibly put up wind chimes in or near my abode, because it is a small flat in a social housing scheme in Exeter city centre, UK. Instead I have started a project called 'Wind Chimes in the Wild - Symphonies of Wind Chimes and Nature', in which I take sets of wind chimes out to a reasonably wild and natural location and hang them up on trees to make fairly lengthy recordings of them as part of natural soundscapes. You can read about this project and listen to excerpts from my recordings on Freesound.org - you can find the relevant page by doing an Internet search for "symphonies of wind chimes" (complete with the double quotes).I mention this because my own requirements and interest are different from most people's. What I had available to compare with these chimes were some excellent and equally well crafted wind chimes from Woodstock. What I found was that, yes, the Music of the Spheres chimes sound wonderful and 'out of this world', but actually they are really a bit more 'out of this world' than I really wanted, and they are difficult for me to combine really effectively with the chimes from other sources. The reason is both the black finish, and, I think, a slightly greater thickness of the tube walls. These conspire to encourage a pronounced 'note' tone but to give it only weak higher harmonics. The sound, then, is penetrating, and carries further than my Woodstock 'silver' finish chimes, and it has a particularly ethereal quality, which many people would absolutely love, but it is not so good for my purposes, because it is more fatiguing to listen to fairly closely for extended periods as in my recordings. It lacks the 'sheen' and airiness of tone, then, that my Woodstock chimes have and I would really prefer. To put it another way, my Woodstock chimes have a shining, 'daylight' quality about their sound, whereas the Music of the Spheres chimes have something of a 'nocturnal' sound - beautiful but lacking in light.I recognised this issue before I made my purchase, but I still bought these chimes because I know of no other source for quality chimes with the Gypsy tuning, which I particularly wanted to use in some recordings. If Woodstock had been offering this tuning, especially in a 'silver' finish, I would have jumped for that instead.These Mezzo chimes have a much more ponderous and doleful sound than the soprano version, which is still haunting, but works really 'magically' when both versions are sounding together (which is particularly why I bought both versions).Because the the tone of these chimes is not fully 'there' for me, I rate them with four stars, but I would emphasize that for most people they would be a five-star job.
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Best Chimes ever.
By Diane
These chimes are large and the 'wind catcher' is about 4" square. I was a little concerned about the size, them being too loud. This is not a problem. I was replacing a bell chime right outside my door that has some wind protection. The sound is wonderful, every time I pass I blow the wind catcher for the light melody. It has a deeper sound and reminds one of church bells. The only down side is if the wind is really strong the tubes will hit each other and then the sound is somewhat clanking. As I'm typing I can hear the melody. Even my husband who never notices chimes asked me what that wonderful sound was.
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