Woodstock Chimes Pluto Chime

Sleek and elegant, the Encore Collection chimes harmonize together and act in concert with Mother Nature, just like the planets - the reason for the celestial names and reference in this series. Named for the planet reclassified as a "dwarf planet" in 2006 due to its size and ...Sleek and elegant, the Encore Collection chimes harmonize together and act in concert with Mother Nature, just like the planets - the reason for the celestial names and reference in this series. Named for the planet reclassified as a "dwarf planet" in 2006 due to its size and relation to the elements in orbit, there is nothing "dwarf" about the great sound of this chime.

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 cant 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 Yorks Hudson Valley.