I used Lee's work 7 years ago when building 4 sets of chimes for the family. I just retired and set up my shop. The chimes were a fine tune project for the shop. The chimes are made of heavy duty galvanized steel fence top rail tuned to the pentatonic scale. One set is hanging outside at the corner of my deck. I can appreciate your comments about temperature change coincides with sound change. When it gets bitter cold the chimes sound more like banging pipes. In the spring on a warm sunny day, those turn into beautiful pleasant resonating notes.

He changed his site since then.

If we could set that 6 footer of yours hanging 22.5 percent off the chandelier in the tower with a lead striker in the bottom middle of the tube tied to a string, woweee! Sounds like fun to me!

I will have a couple eight footers of the 2" .065 brass left over after building all 14 chimes from the Solfeggio and Chakra scales tuned at A=440hz.

I was actually looking forward to build a G scale ceiling train in the family room this month but the chimes have moved to the front burner. I'm also looking at some 3.5" .202 galvanized antenna mask pipe to make a set of the above chimes for the back deck. The trains are stored away so can wait until next year.

Thanks!

I missed this thread, it hasn't surfaced since I moved from the SE84UFO3 Monoblocks to the SEWE300B.

I'm just so totally sold on the 25th Anniversary SET experience. The SEWE300B keeps revealing itself to me. Over the 3 years it has educated me in how to get the various versions of it to the forefront, and which version I prefer and how to nourish and maintain that.

I couldn't be happier with an amp and I am NEVER board with it. I think this resembles how it is when you find a mate that you bond with--you are fascinated and a part of long education that sustains one's interest and intriguing involvement.

So saxguy. . . how does the amp sound NOW?

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I use Lee Hites excellent work to make my chimes:  https://leehite.org/Chimes.htm

I am happy to have inspired you!  This link is where I learned what to do, and I use his calculator.  

Once I have a chime tuned perfect at 72 degrees, (make sure you wear gloves because hand heat will raise the temp of the metal) I then decide if I want to add temperature compensation, which is basically  a system to add or remove mass.  That's what the plugs were on the bottom of my chimes.  

You see, the longest chime I made so far, that was at the castle,  at 3 inches, 1/8th inch wall thickness, and nearly 6 feet has enough mass that the tuning will change by 1 Hz with every 10 degree change in temperature.  My chimes are aluminum.  If I made the same ones from brass it would probably be every 5 degrees.

Anyway, people don't know it, but chimes create scalar waves at the hang point and the same distance from the bottom and in the middle, and scalar waves are where two frequencies collide and turn into heat as science would have you believe, but in reality heat is just a tiny signature from the energy leaving the physical realm.  It stands to reason that as long as the wave is in tact it would be a conduit to the astral realm that can send information both ways.  The Audio Gods taught me this.  

Anyway, anxious to see what you come up with!

For sale are sets of 5U4G rectifiers.

One group of three came from Decware - made in China. Asking $50 + $25 shipping to CONUS.

One group of three are RCA - 1960’s production. Asking $60 + $25 shipping to CONUS.

One group of two are Sylvania - 1960’s production. Asking $50 + $25 shipping to CONUS.

Low hours on all of these.

Payment by Venmo please.

Thanks for looking!

All cables are sold. Zbit is sold.

Tubes still available.

Good News…the email above works and Deyan replied back within hours and was very responsive to questions and help with picking out some 6SN7 adapters!

I was just about to order parts for HDTs and started to reflect on this years Decfest. The most remembered time was the combined Solfeggio and Chakra chime tubes climbing the spiral staircase in the castle. This started the search for pipe to make my own.

I found some 2" brass in marketplace for barely above scarp price. 114 pounds for $375. This was a tavern bar rail located near my old turf as a boy. Now a private club. The owner has 5 years on me and took the brass rail down because his cleaning crew retired. I guess it is hard to find good help these days.

I plan on starting a new post on the build. Thinking of calling it the ultimate Decware accessory.

Love his well organized clean shop Donnie. Mooresville is a nice area with Lake Norman just south. Twenty or so miles further south is the home of my daughter and Victrola parts supplier.