Woodstock Chimes Butterfly Harp Chime, Silver Review

Aligned like the strings of a harp, the seven rods of our Woodstock Harp Chime tranquilly resonate. The musical tones they produce cascade gracefully and create a waterfall of sound. This chime is presided over by a filigreed silver butterfly that contrasts beautifully with a midnight black top. A symbol of metamorphosis, the butterfly reminds us to flow with the turning tides of nature and start anew.  One may be as accepting as the caterpillar when change is inevitable. Whether you hang it indoors or out, this harp’s music calls you to emerge from transitions as brilliantly as a butterfly. Gift boxed. Woodstock Chimes are the original, musically-tuned, high-quality wind chimes 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 chime 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 chime 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 wind chimes. Garry and his wife Diane founded Woodstock Percussion, Inc. in 1979 and it remains a family-owned business in New York’s Hudson Valley.