Woodstock Chimes Little Gregorian Windchime

A small chime with the same tuning as the other 4 chimes in the Gregorian series, The Little Gregorian is distinctive for having the highest notes of the series. The 8 tubes of this chime produce a bright, delicate, and ever-changing melody using the medieval scale that echoes the vocal music of the gothic era. The Little Gregorian harmonizes beautifully with the Gregorian Soprano, next highest in tone, the Gregorian Alto, which is the medium toned chime, the Gregorian Tenor which has deeper notes, and the Gregorian Baritone which has the deepest tones in the series. 8 precision-tuned tubes produce a sound that is soothing, uplifting, and incredibly rich. Imagine all 5 Gregorian Chimes hung together with their beautiful notes in perfect harmony.

Woodstock Chimes are the original, musically-tuned, high-quality windchimes known worldwide for their superior sound. When listening to a Woodstock Chime, you hear a fine musical instrument played by the wind, perfectly hand-tuned using the ancient system of “just intonation” based on natural harmonics. This means the frequencies at which the different tubes vibrate are related to one another by simple whole-number ratios. Tones that are related in this way produce the most beautiful musical intervals. The sonic effect is exceptionally pure and soothing.

More than 30 years ago, the first Woodstock Chime was created by founder and owner Garry Kvistad from an aluminum lawn chair he found in a landfill. As a professional musician and instrument designer, he was fascinated by the Scales of Olympos, a 7th century pentatonic scale that can’t be played on a modern piano. Garry had the idea to cut and tune the lawn chair tubes to the exact frequency of the ancient scale. The resulting Chimes of Olympos was the first Woodstock Chime and is still one of our bestselling windchimes. Garry and his wife Diane founded Woodstock Percussion, Inc. in 1979 and it remains a family-owned business in New York’s Hudson Valley.

• This classic-style wind chime, tuned to a medieval scale commonly used in gregorian chant, sounds uplifting, exceptionally rich, and melodious

• 8 Silver-colored aluminum tubes; cherry wood top, clapper and wind catcher; durable, braided nylon cord

• One of a series of 5 precision-tuned wind chimes to enjoy together as a set or individually, this alto chime is middle voice in the gregorian series

• Other wind chimes in the gregorian series are the little gregorian, gregorian soprano, gregorian tenor, and gregorian baritone

• Measures 13-inches overall length; 10.5-inches from the top wooden piece to the bottom of the wind catcher; longest tube is 5.5-inches