Half-speed! Trio of pentatonic wind chimes with bamboo chimes, in Teign Gorge

Half-speed version of part of a trio of my smaller wind chimes (all the pentatonic ones) with bamboo chimes, in Teign Gorge, the chimes hung up on trees high up in the Teign Gorge on a very breezy day. This use of the pentatonic scale always suggests to me the musical equivalent of rainbow colours. Chimes used this time are:

1. Woodstock Chimes of Pluto (moderately high-pitched, pentatonic)

2. Woodstock Chimes of Polaris (higher-pitched, pentatonic)

3. Woodstock Chimes of Mercury (very high-pitched, pentatonic)

4. Bamboo chimes, large + small (cheap unbranded, locally purchased; both sets always used together)

I recorded this on 2 January 2014 on the rough slope just below Hunting Gate, which latter marks the highest point of the Hunter's Path, high up on the north side of the Teign Gorge, Drewsteignton, Devon, UK.

For this session my four smaller chimes sets (Pluto, Polaris, Mercury, Mars) were put together with the bamboo chimes in the first recording, and then again for the second recording, but without the Mars chimes, and finally I recorded just the bamboo chimes. This, the second of the three recordings, gives us the three pentatonic chimes pitted against the earthy rattling of the bamboo chimes, the latter very loosely suggesting a whole-tone scale.

For more details about the different metal chimes used, please go to https://www.philipgoddard.com/shop/store-windchimes.htm.

This recording taking place. The recorder (light grey furry windshield) is perched on a small branch rather than on a tripod.

Cropped part of main image. The small bamboo chimes help confuse identification by having the tubes dyed blackish. The more distant (and small) chimes at centre are the Mercury chimes, whose tubes have a bronze finish, which is the reason for their looking darker.

Techie stuff

The recorder was Sony PCM-M10, with Røde DeadKitten furry windshield. It was perched on a tree branch by means of a GorillaPod.

Post-recording processing was to apply EQ in Audacity to correct for the muffling effect of the windshield — and then more recently stereo widening / sharpening-up using the VST plugin A1 Stereo Control (160% widening). I used the 'Change speed' effect in Audacity to create this half-speed version.

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