Music of the Spheres – Gypsy Soprano, Small Handcrafted Wind Chime, Precision Tuned, Weather-resistant Unique Outdoor Wind Chimes, 30"

I have two chimes by MotS this Gypsy and another larger Japanese one and I've bought a couple more for gifts. Beautiful tones always. These are expensive wind-chimes but they are so much more than your standard wind-chime that kind of just jingles tink-tink-tink in the background. The sound that comes out of MotS wind-chimes is blissful, harmonious, serenity inducing music to my ears. If you are on the fence Just dive on in. If you have a particular one in mind you can also check back as people frequently return so you can find good open box deals.Would I buy this chime again?No doubt about it and this is probably not my last MotS purchase.

Great item. I first saw this item when I went to check out some caves in Indiana and there was a really huge one and I loved the sound and the name "music of the spheres". Of course it was so much more expensive at the cave store. I got a good deal and I love it.

I had high hopes for these chimes before they arrived... My expectations were exceeded! Very well made. The variety of scale/tune with these windchimes can't be beat. The sound is so "true". It was almost distracting in its prettiness at first. I also enjoy that it plays a small random tune so it never gets old. I just love it. It's worth the price - no really, buy one.***ADD ON: It is NOW 2018 and these chimes are STILL GOING strong- they have been left out over harsh winters and scorched summers tinkling away. They'll last another ten easy!

Got the soprano Gypsy to compliment the mezzo Japanese I already have. They harmonize beautifully together. Don't even sound like the typical tinkly wind chimes. Sounds like just one with an extended range. Got them to use as a memorial for my late father and wife. My larger one is almost 2 years old and still looks new so I'm expecting this one to do the same. They're pricey but you definitely get what you pay for.

This was our sixth Spheres windchime purchase. Why can I give only five stars? The genius tuning on these everlasting tubes cause them to hum in the softest air. When a storm thunders in, the chimes boldly proclaim the wonder of Creation! The birds have revised their songs to harmonize with the Gypsy scale perfected by Austin Angels...... ok, I really love these!

I purchased both the Mezzo and Soprano version of the Gypsy chime, for a very unusual purpose. I couldn't possibly put up wind chimes in or near my abode, because it is a small flat in a social housing scheme in Exeter city centre, UK. Instead I have started a project called 'Wind Chimes in the Wild - Symphonies of Wind Chimes and Nature', in which I take sets of wind chimes out to a reasonably wild and natural location and hang them up on trees to make fairly lengthy recordings of them as part of natural soundscapes (or smaller chimes out onto various Cornish clifftops, suspended on light tripods. You can read about this project and listen to excerpts from my recordings on my Broad Horizon Natural Soundscapes page (find it in a search engine) - and you can also usefully search on Amazon.com for "wind chimes in the wild".I mention this because my own requirements and interest are different from most people's. What I had available to compare with these chimes were some excellent and equally well crafted wind chimes from Woodstock. What I found was that, yes, the Music of the Spheres chimes sound wonderful and 'out of this world', but actually they are really a bit more 'out of this world' than I really wanted, and they are difficult for me to combine really effectively with the chimes from other sources. The reason is both the black finish, and, I think, a slightly greater thickness of the tube walls. These conspire to encourage a pronounced 'note' tone but to give it only weak higher harmonics. The sound, then, is penetrating, and carries further than my Woodstock 'silver' finish chimes, and it has a particularly ethereal quality, which many people would absolutely love, but it is not so good for my purposes, because it is more fatiguing to listen to fairly closely for extended periods as in my recordings. It lacks the 'sheen' and airiness of tone, then, that my Woodstock chimes have and I would really prefer. To put it another way, my Woodstock chimes have a shining, 'daylight' quality about their sound, whereas the Music of the Spheres chimes have something of a 'nocturnal' sound - beautiful but lacking in light.I recognised this issue before I made my purchase, but I still bought these chimes because I know of no other source for quality chimes with the Gypsy tuning, which I particularly wanted to use in some recordings. If Woodstock had been offering this tuning, especially in a 'silver' finish, I would have jumped for that instead.These Soprano chimes are brighter and much friskier than the mezzo version, and work really 'magically' when both versions are sounding together (which is particularly why I bought both versions). At even quite a small distance, the Soprano chimes sound like a mysterious ghostly organ playing, and this effect is much more powerful when both mezzo and soprano chimes are sounding together. When I made recordings of these, passing walkers stopped, entranced, and the words 'magical' and 'haunting' were spontaneously proffered.Because the tone of these chimes is not fully 'there' for me, I rate them with four stars, but I would emphasize that for most people they would be a five-star job.Update, 19 November 2013:By putting the Gypsy Chimes further away from the recorder I succeeded in getting better balance and absolutely wonderful blends or at least interactions between the MOTS chimes and the Woodstock ones. The different scales naturally vary in compatibility, but the only combination that I found irredeemably discordant was the Gypsy Chimes plus the Woodstock Gregorian. Combining Gypsy with the Woodstock Chimes of Olympos produced a fascinating and invigorating harmonically spiky effect rather like many works of Bela Bartok, while combinations with Woodstock Chimes of Pluto, Polaris, Mercury and Mars were all exquisitely harmonious, the various slight pungencies making really invigorating musical experiences.

Music of the Spheres has to be the all time best wind chimes. Sound is out of this world.

This was a gift in memory of my nephew. His wife will hear the the beautiful notes floating in the Carolina winds. Perfect.