Thanks Bart, Sally, Sudhu and everyone around your ever inspiring instruments! We are all lucky that you share these documents! Long live to bells, cowbells, chimes and all!
Hello Rety Kotlety, thanks for this comment. The bells on the bell tree are steel fence post caps, normally used as the caps atop steel fence posts. They can often be found at metal scrap yards. They appear in a range of shapes and sizes and pitches and they sound great with a small, hard beater. They can be tuned, within limits and with some difficulty: To raise the pitch, grind to shorten the overall length. To lower the pitch either grind to thin the rim all around or add weight all around the rim to lower the pitch. But in some ways it's more fun, and a lot easier, to just accept the pitches of a varied set of fence post caps as you find them and be happy with whatever fortuitous pitch relationships naturally arise.
It was wonderful meeting with you Bart and Sally. Thanks for letting us try your instruments Bart , it was very inspiring!
Beautiful, wonderful, amazing, and inspiring! Your instruments make me feel so grateful to be alive in this time, Bart Hopkin!
Thanks Bart, Sally, Sudhu and everyone around your ever inspiring instruments! We are all lucky that you share these documents! Long live to bells, cowbells, chimes and all!
Nice
OMG I love it!
What are the bells on the tiny tree made out of?
Hello Rety Kotlety, thanks for this comment. The bells on the bell tree are steel fence post caps, normally used as the caps atop steel fence posts. They can often be found at metal scrap yards. They appear in a range of shapes and sizes and pitches and they sound great with a small, hard beater. They can be tuned, within limits and with some difficulty: To raise the pitch, grind to shorten the overall length. To lower the pitch either grind to thin the rim all around or add weight all around the rim to lower the pitch. But in some ways it's more fun, and a lot easier, to just accept the pitches of a varied set of fence post caps as you find them and be happy with whatever fortuitous pitch relationships naturally arise.