Woodstock Chimes USA Star Spangle Banner Chime, Silver
Tuned to the opening notes of our national anthem, the Star-Spangled Banner. To celebrate its 200th anniversary, we have tuned this spirited sounding chime to the first six notes of the Star-Spangled Banner , which was originally written in 1814 as a poem to commemorate what turned out to be the last American war against England. The words are by Francis Scott Key, an American lawyer, and the melody is by John Stafford Smith, an English composer. The song was officially proclaimed our national anthem in 1931 by Congress. It is sung at professional sporting events and concerts, with notable renditions by Jimi Hendrix, Igor Stravinsky, José Feliciano and Lady Gaga, to name a few. Let our Star-Spangled Banner Chime sing out for you, no matter the occasion. In 1979, Grammy Award-winning musician and instrument designer Garry Kvistad created the first Woodstock Chime from an aluminum lawn chair he found in a landfill. Fascinated by the Scale of Olympos, a 7th century pentatonic scale that can’t be played on a modern piano, Garry cut and tuned 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 best selling, musically-tuned windchimes. Garry and his wife Diane still develop the chimes today as part of their family-owned business in New York’s Hudson Valley. Woodstock Chimes - The World's Favorite Windchime.
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