Wind in the trees and 'ghostly' distant Gypsy chimes, Teign Gorge

The wind rustles and rattles through the dead leaves (mostly beech) on the stunted trees — and now and then we hear distant Gypsy chimes, which indeed, but for some rather down-to-earth clankings, could be mistaken for a ghostly organ playing somewhere 'beyond'.

Chimes used:

1. Music of the Spheres Gypsy Mezzo

2. Music of the Spheres Gypsy Soprano

3. Bamboo chimes and Woodstock Pluto chimes (neither are readily discernible in this recording)

I made this recording on 5 March 2013, beside the Hunter's Path, Teign Gorge, Drewsteignton, Devon, UK, high up on the north side of the valley. It's an additional, more distant, recording made with a second recorder while I was also recording close as in the photo below.

Advisory:

Unless you have exceptionally quiet surrounding you'd need to be using high-grade headphones for this. Otherwise all you hear of the chimes would probably be just the odd faint clanking sounds. It's the chimes' continuous tones (very quiet at this distance) that really need to be heard.

The chimes setup for this recording, except that there was also the Woodstock Chimes of Pluto, which, however goes more or less unheard, together with the bamboo chimes. In this recording, made from some 20 metres westward of here (i.e., obliquely behind and to right of this view. The large and small bamboo chimes are the leftmost, closest to the recorder, and the Gypsy chimes are further from the latter because of their loud and penetrating tone. The soprano Gypsy chimes are a bit difficult to recognise here because of a broken-off birch trunk immediately behind them.

Techie stuff

The recorder was Sony PCM-M10, with Røde DeadKitten furry windshield (original, more effective, version), placed on a Velbon Mini tripod. I soon stopped using the latter because of its weight and the malevolent sprung clip type of leg-length locks, which bite painfully and quite readily drew blood or at least gave me blood blisters.

Post-recording processing was to apply EQ in Audacity to correct for the muffling effect of the windshield, and more recent processing with the A1 Stereo Control VST plugin (160% widening).

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