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On this page you will find: Chlorite Slate Lithophones, Glass Miraphones , Sound fork games, Hybrid Lithophones , Plate Bells , Copper Tube Chimes , resonance cradles , Bass plate bells , and trapezoid Lithophones .
Chlorite Slate Lithophone
Sound Fork
This sturdy sound object is made of stainless steel. The sound bodies are bent into a U shape and welded in their curvature over resonant tubes. They are not arranged by pitch as usual, but form a playing field that allows them to be played by several people at the same time.
Hybrid Lithophone
Solid chlorite slate plates are mounted on resonators. Players can either rub them on their polished ends with wet hands or strike them in the middle.
Resonance Cradle
On this cradle, you can fully relax. It is gently rocked back and forth, and a tubular bass chime, standing on the ground, is struck. Each time the cradle glides over the bass chime, the sound is amplified by resonance fans and can be felt throughout the whole body.
Plate Bells
Pentatonically tuned plate bells made of nickel silver are suspended in a mesh, allowing them to swing freely together.
Copper Tube Chimes
The copper sound chimes have a very long resonance. They are tuned pentatonically and can also be played by two people from both sides.
Bass Plate Bells
A square bronze plate sounds an octave lower when struck at its corners than in the middle. The hollow spaces of the pillars serve as resonators because their cavities are tuned to the tones of the plate bell hanging on them. This creates deep, sun-warmed bell tones spreading throughout the garden
Trapezoid Lithophone
The stones made of frost-resistant Jura limestone are tuned to a section of the overtone series in G. If you add the missing overtones, a Jacob's ladder shape would emerge (see the last picture in the gallery). The stones overlap at some point, creating a form reminiscent of the curved horn of a ram or even a vortex. The overtone series is infinite. That means we have to imagine this ladder as infinitely long - like Jacob's ladder, reaching into the sky.