Woodstock Chimes Habitats Chime, Owl, Black Review

Featuring some of nature’s most endearing creatures, The Habitats Collection of chimes have melodies that lift the spirit and create a feeling of ease, celebrating the variety of nature all around us. Stylish and sophisticated chimes that can easily inhabit both indoor and outdoor settings and help those within earshot to keep balance with their environment. Owls are nocturnal hunters with thick, fluffy feathers that absorb the sound of their wings in flight. By contrast, this Habitats owl chime can be clearly heard as it sings out in the wind to make beautiful music. More Habitats patterns in both black and antiqued copper finishes available separately. 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 and his wife Diane founded Woodstock Percussion, Inc. in 1979 and it remains a family-owned business in New York’s Hudson Valley.