The value of such a beautifully crafted instrument playing tones of such incredible clarity with such a rich sustain speaks for itself. It says “I am the Stradivarius of windchimes®”!
Main Exhibit Gallery has many sizes and voice ranges in stock, or we're happy to order them in for you. Contact us for current pricing, availability, or to order:
724-238-2310 | [email protected]
724-238-2310 | [email protected]
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CHIME SIZES
From the cheerful 30-inch Soprano chimes to the mellow 90" Bass, the variety of sizes and musical scales give you an impressive array of options and price points.
SIZE = VOICE: The smaller the chime, the higher the pitch register in which it plays. We stock five sizes (voices) of chimes, plus the WESTMINSTER: SOPRANO, MEZZO, ALTO, TENOR, and BASS. MUSICAL SCALE = “SONG”: There are 11 choices of musical scales (but in different sizes) to choose from. Main Exhibit Gallery typically offers the eight most popular: Pentatonic, Mongolian, Nashville, Quartal, Whole Tone, Japanese, Chinese, and Balinese. We also carry the Westminster (listed above with audio) which comes in only one size. They are listed below with sample audios in each voice range. Please contact us for our current availability at 724-238-2310 | [email protected] Current Pricing: Alto: $272 Mezzo: $192 Soprano: $132 Westminster: $347 |
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SOPRANO
Overall Height: 30" Weight: 2 lbs Pipe Diameter: 7/8" |
MEZZO SOPRANO
Overall Height: 38" Weight: 5 lbs Pipe Diameter: 1 3/16" |
ALTO
Overall Height: 50" Weight: 10 lbs Pipe Diameter: 1 1/2" |
TENOR
Overall Height: 60" Weight: 27 lbs Pipe Diameter: 2" |
BASS
Overall Height: 90" Weight: 45 lbs Pipe Diameter: 2 1/2" |
PentatonicWhole Tone
Chinese
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Mongolian
Quartal
BALINESE
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nashville
Japanese
WestminsterPipe Diameter 1-1/2"
Overall Hanging Length 90" Weight 15 lbs. |
Our humble beginnings: August, 1989, in the gifted mind of classically trained musician Larry Roark. Larry had a new girlfriend, Sara Neal Eskew, whom he had met at the premier craft show in Austin, TX, where he was selling his art photography. She had a pretty good large windchime made by another local craftsperson. Realizing the maker of Sara’s chime was no longer in town and thus a hole existed in the local market, Larry decided to supplement his income from his various artistic and musical endeavors with windchimes. With only a few hand tools, some electrical conduit, an electronic guitar tuner and the sure knowledge that a windchime could be tuned to symphonic-quality accuracy, Larry went into his garage and created a new musical instrument. His prototype had a croquet ball-looking clapper. When he showed the chime to Sara, she joking said he could call his new product “Music of the Spheres”. Loving the idea, Larry began marketing “Music of the Spheres” chimes immediately at Austin’s Renaissance Market and Texas Renaissance Festival near Houston alongside his photography.
Larry’s chimes were hugely successfully from the start. We began wholesaling in the fall of 1991, and attended our first trade show in January, 1992. Over the years, Larry perfected the array of pitch ranges, the offerings of musical scales, the design and materials ,and the distinctive trade dress of matte black tubing with silver accents and a curved diamond-shaped windcatcher, now protected by the United States patent and trademark office. Larry was killed by a drunk driver on March 6, 2001, but we have continued to realize his vision of world peace, one backyard at a time®. We have never strayed from his idea of producing a symphonic-quality musical instrument for the wind to play. We are still thriving in the post-recessionary economy because the value of such a beautifully crafted instrument playing tones of such incredible clarity with such a rich sustain speaks for itself. It says “I am the Stradivarius of windchimes®”!
Larry’s chimes were hugely successfully from the start. We began wholesaling in the fall of 1991, and attended our first trade show in January, 1992. Over the years, Larry perfected the array of pitch ranges, the offerings of musical scales, the design and materials ,and the distinctive trade dress of matte black tubing with silver accents and a curved diamond-shaped windcatcher, now protected by the United States patent and trademark office. Larry was killed by a drunk driver on March 6, 2001, but we have continued to realize his vision of world peace, one backyard at a time®. We have never strayed from his idea of producing a symphonic-quality musical instrument for the wind to play. We are still thriving in the post-recessionary economy because the value of such a beautifully crafted instrument playing tones of such incredible clarity with such a rich sustain speaks for itself. It says “I am the Stradivarius of windchimes®”!