Woodstock Wind Chimes for Outside, Garden, Patio, Porch and Outdoor Decor (17″) Gregorian Chimes Soprano Silver Wind Chime (GSS)
$39.99
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Immerse yourself in the peaceful patterns of Gregorian chant with this classic-style windchime. Tuned to a medieval scale, it echoes the vocal music of the gothic era sung to accompany meditation in the churches of Europe since the late 8th century. The sound produced by the 8 precision-tuned tubes is soothing, uplifting, and incredibly rich. One of a series of 5 differently sized windchimes tuned to the same scale, the Gregorian Soprano Chime harmonizes beautifully with the other Gregorian Chimes. Imagine the sound of all 5 Gregorian Chimes hung outdoors and sounding together with their rich melodies.
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.
This classic-style wind chime, tuned to a medieval scale commonly used in gregorian chant, sounds uplifting, exceptionally rich, and melodious
8 Silver-colored aluminum tubes; cherry wood top, clapper and wind catcher; durable, braided nylon cord
One of a series of 5 precision-tuned wind chimes to enjoy together as a set or individually, this alto chime is middle voice in the gregorian series
Other wind chimes in the gregorian series are the little gregorian, gregorian soprano, gregorian tenor, and gregorian baritone
Measures 17-inches overall length; 13-inches from the top wooden piece to the bottom of the wind catcher; longest tube is 7.5-inches
13 reviews for Woodstock Wind Chimes for Outside, Garden, Patio, Porch and Outdoor Decor (17″) Gregorian Chimes Soprano Silver Wind Chime (GSS)
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JW –
Best wind chimes at affordable price
These wind chimes are quality made and produce a Gregorian chant pleasant sound. Will last for many years.
Corrine –
Sound beautifully in the wind
These sound so beautifully in the wind. Really high quality sound.
Debaboo –
Beautiful sound to your ears!!
I bought these windchimes for my Mom because for one reason, she loves windchimes. I at first was only going to get the tenor because I love the deep sounding chimes instead of the more high pitch soprano ones BUT the beautiful melody of these chimes are far superior to the tinny sound of others, that my Mom wanted all three, soprano, tenor and baritone, she wants them to harmonize together, so I have ordered the soprano and baritone as well. Since she plays a baby grand piano I would say she knows her music. I do know it is a beautiful sound to my ears, I LOVE the way it softly holds the note for some time. I was passing by it when I could hear it humming, it sounded so soft and soothing!I would also like to add it is VERY well made and sturdy!One more thing, for those people who said that it takes a lot of wind to get it to chime, I haven’t found that to be a problem AT ALL!! A small breeze sets it off, and where we live we get PLENTY of breezes, and WINDS!
Diane Cox –
Pretty Chimes
Beautiful
Joseph –
High quality chimes
I am writing this review as I look for other members of the Woodstock Gregorian chimes collection and thought that this might be useful. I have had these chimes for 15 years now and I’ve never had to mend them in any way. The wood finish wears as anything would out in the elements but the lacework has not faltered. Woodstock chimes adds grommets to the chime tubes to protect the string so they don’t fray from friction. The tuned chimes sound as beautiful today as they had brand new. I own the tenor and baritone sets and would gladly add the soprano and alto. You can’t go wrong with this line of chimes!
John Toews –
Mellow Chimes – (plus a ‘Mute’ idea)
* 4.5 Stars* Sounds beautiful. I like the deep tones & am glad I spent the extra $* Looks great – nicely made, etc. (i.e. the tops of all the tubes line up (but the bottoms don’t 8^)Requires a moderate amount of wind. -0.5 StarsI may try a larger, lighter wind paddle some day.I wish it were available in ‘bronze’ – but that doesn’t detract from this product.I’ve wanted one for years and I love it!Warning, it is quite tall – just make sure your suspension point is high enough. It does not work well if the wind paddle drags on the ground! Not a fault of the product, just a heads-up warning.Just sitting here, wishing it had a ‘mute’. No wind chime I know of does. I want to take it RVing & want to mute it easily after quiet time.Here’s what I just came up with:1) Measure the diameter of the wooden striker.2) make a disk 2 cm (3/4″) larger in diameter of some light rigid foam 1 cm (1/2″) thick (I’ll use rigid building insulation sliced down to 1 cm.)3) Cut the disk in half, giving two D’s4) Leaving a slight gap, 1 mm (1/8″), tape the two D’s back together with 5 cm (2″) tape from the edge ALMOST to the centre. Just over half the gap is un-taped! The tape is now a hinge.5) Glue two thin decorative pieces on the tape side, making a “T” with the tape. This holds the gap open when folded6) To use,… a) fold in half (tape inside the fold),…b) grip the tape end, flat side down & slip it in just above the striker,…c) unfold & flatten the disk7) If you put it in flat side down, it should remove easilyNo guarantees!
Ellen Bee –
Love the deep tone
This is my second time purchasing this wind chime. The first one lasted 6 years hanging outside 24/7 through straight one winds, rain, snow, and humid hot summers. Of course I was bummed the string broke! But after months of trying to find another chine to replace it I just had to come back to the Baritone Gregorian wind chime.
janettetsmith –
Hmm . . .
. . . Looks like quality plummeted since my purchase. The cost today is $118.54 and I purchased mine back on 19 Jun 01 for $89.99 (plus some -$10.00 I had). As of 19 Jun 10 my chimes are fine. I have no idea if the tone is correct or not, however it sound deep to me. What I can say is that the quality of the set I received was better than what some describe in their reviews. That quality has held up very well. Nothing was ‘coated’ or ‘painted’ or ‘2nd hand quality’. Furthermore, my set has weathered some pretty strong winds and made it through fine. Seems like the company decided making money was more important than quality sometime after 19 Jun 01, which is a shame since the chimes I purchased are awesome. I’m sorry for those who received the poor quality version because at one point the quality was outstanding.
Malena –
Me encanto !
Gran gran –
楽器として購入。音色がとても美しいです！
Bianca Zach –
I love Woodstock chimes. Amazing sound and quality.
ねこまんま –
予想していたよりずっと早く到着しました。直輸入でもまったく問題ないのだと確信がもてました。対応も丁寧でした。
Philip Goddard –
I actually bought three different sets of Woodstock Chimes, each tuned to a different scale, not for any conventional purpose but for my ‘Wind Chimes in the Wild’ project. For this I would take one or more sets of chimes out to a carefully chosen reasonable wild place, hang them up on trees alone or in various combinations where there was sufficient wind, and make longish recordings of the whole natural soundscape, incorporating the particular chimes sounds. These recordings have proved to be exquisitely beautiful, and my plan is presently to arrange commercial produce-on-demand CD productions of many of those recordings, which would then go up on Amazon.com. In the meantime I am putting a 5-minute excerpt of each recording up at Freesound.org (my personal website links through to all that). The full length recordings of combinations of the chimes are not soporific like the commercial recordings of wind chimes as ‘relaxation’ sound, but are in some cases quite as engaging as a work of symphonic music.I chose the ‘silver’ finish version of each set of chimes, because listening tests on other sites that gave short sound samples of the respective chimes to listen to showed that the ‘silver’ finish ones had an altogether brighter, ‘sunnier’ and more ‘open’ sound, I think because the various alternative finishes somewhat subdue the higher overtones.The Tenor Gregorian Chimes are tuned to a Gregorian Chant scale, which has a sort of radiance with a sense of ‘grandness’ about it, and that aspect of ‘grandness’ has interesting effects when combined with the other chimes that I’d bought (Chimes of Olympos and Chimes of Pluto). I have to say it – the sound of any and all of them is beautiful beyond description and is far removed from the popular image of wind chimes as being just New-Agey sweet little tinklings. Okay, part of the equation here is the way that I, a composer with a highly sensitive musical ear, am using and recording them in a way that gets the best out of them, but I think few reasonably sensitive people would not be moved by the beauty of sound of any of these three sets that I bought.I cannot commend these chimes too highly. My own preference is for a well balanced timbre, with a clearly audible and reasonably even spread of overtones, right into the highest reaches of the audible frequency range, and these silver finish ones seem to fit the bill admirably.