Strange wind chimes trio! — The Blues, Twilight, bamboo

Outlandishly other-worldly!

Here we have a strange and enchanting trio, recorded on 10 May 2017 at my usual wind chimes recording spot, by Hunting Gate, at the highest point on the Hunter's Path, high up on the north side of the Teign Gorge, Drewsteignton, Devon, UK — as always, with a backdrop of the quiet rushing sound of the River Teign far below in the bottom of the valley.

Chimes used:

1. Davis Blanchard Twilight (right)

2. Davis Blanchard The Blues (left)

3. Bamboo chimes — cheap ones bought from a local store. These are a large and a small set, which I always used together as though they were one instrument.

After the really quite awesome musical spectacles afforded by the various clashes and microtonal interactions between other pairings of DB chimes, this pairing comes as a real surprise, for its overall sound is sweet and harmonious, with only the odd teasing hints of the odd wayward note or interval. Also, the tuning of this pair matches particularly well the bamboo chimes, so that instead of sounding to be a wayward contrasting element, their contrast is only in timbre and not much in the pitches being sounded, which key in together remarkably harmoniously.

The birds were singing even more for these recordings than previous times, so, together with the mostly gentle wind and thus mostly gentle chimes sound, we have a great recording of a beautiful overall balance of birds and chimes.

This is one of the many fruits of my Wind Chimes in the Wild project. Perhaps perversely, I'm uploading my recordings in reverse chronological order — most recent first —, so the most 'advanced' sounds are tending to come earlier rather than later.

Detailed information about the Davis Blanchard chimes

The willow warbler is the most prominent and persistent bird singing for us, but there's a range of others.

Recording two Davis Blanchard chimes plus a large and small set of cheap bamboo chimes in an earlier session at the same spot (no photos for this session). The arrow points to the recorder, with its black furry windshield.

Techie stuff:
The recorder was a Sony PCM-D100, with two nested Windcut furry windshields (custom design), and it was placed on a Zipshot Mini tripod, in a position where it was tolerably sheltered from the wind.

Initial post-recording processing was to apply an EQ curve to compensate for muffling from the furry windshields.

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