audio gadgetware
Wind chimes are one nature-powered music device, but here is another: a solar thermal organ. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv0ulNLRkWM [video link] Parabolic reflectors power thermoacoustic variable-pitch pipe resonators. In another video the creator describes how the sun can cast shadows on arrays of thermal organs, changing sound as the sun moves. [kudos Make:]
Oddstrument Collection is having a contest for garden musical instruments: Things like wind chimes, outdoor gongs, bells, fountains, musical sculptures, “wind banjos”, etc. Think solar, wind, water powered and beyond. [via :Make] Related posts: Chime Variations, Building Wind Chimes
Ranjit describes a sound sculpture using strings instead of chimes. [Video link] (hat tip Make) Furin are glass wind chimes, a sound of summer in Japan. PingMag [link no longer found] interviews furin craftsman Yoshiharu Shinohara, with marvelous photos. (kudos Dinosaurs and Robots)
WinChime 1.0, our first Sagebrush product, was released February 27, 1995, running on Windows 3.1 . Win95 would not appear until November of that year, computers were just beginning to come equipped with sound cards and CD-Rom drives, and people wanted something to play on their new devices. Audio takes up a lot of space … Read more
The Enigma column of New Scientist August 20 2005 issue presents this problem by Bob Walker: A wind chime, with 10 chimes of lengths 1 cm to 10 cm, placed uniform distances apart around the circumference of a round disk so they are “balanced perfectly.” The 10 lengths of the chimes in this sequence form … Read more
Chimes greet the dawn at Burning Man. Video link [via ifilm]
Arrrrrr’, on this Talk Like a Pirate Day, we be presentin’ one of our previous logs in pirate-speak. Tip o’ me cap to this translator. (Pirate) WinChime RingTone: TracFoneV176 We be havin’ a TracFone v176 (GSM, Motorola) an’ wanted t’ add a WinChime ringtone t’ th’ handset, preferably at nay charge. Generate a MIDI File … Read more
We found this unusual gravity-powered chime: The chimes are seen to flutter down the string. Note that the chime holes do not seem to be at 22% of chime length for optimum resonance, but appear to be closer to the end, perhaps necessary for flutter action. Previously: Big Chime, Building Chimes, Bike Wind Chime, One-Note … Read more
Resources found on the web: An Engineering Approach to Wind Chime Design (no longer available) Making Wind Chimes Making Windchimes Bamboo Wind Chimes Glass Wind Chimes (kudos Wikipedia) Related posts: Bike Wind Chime, One-Note Chime, Hard Drive Chime, Building Chimes
We can confirm that our previous article on transferring a WinChime MIDI file to the Motorola V176 marketed by Tracfone also works on the newer W370 model. Related articles: WinChime Ringtone V176 WinChime Ringtone: Uniden ELX500