Automatic Tubular Bells

Step 6 Final considerations, future ideas and links....

Despite the instrument sounds nice, it is not fast enough to play some melodies, in fact some times it desynchronizes a bit with the melody. So I am planning a new more effective and precisse version, because time precision is a very important matter when we are talking about musical instruments. If you play a note with some miliseconds advance or delay your ear will find something strange in the melody. So each note has to be played in the precise moment with the precise energy. The cause of these delays in this first version of the instrument is that percusion system I have choosen is not as fast as it should. The new version will have a very similiar structure, but will use solenoids instead of motors. Solenoids are faster and more precisse but they are also more expensive and dificult to find. This first version can be used to play simple melodies, as stand alone instrument, or in clocks, doorbells ...

Project main page:
Automatic Tubular Bells home page

A video of the Automatic Tubular Bells:
YouTube video of the Automatic Tubular Bells

Links
In this sites you will find allmost all information you'll need to build your own chimes:
Making Wind Chimes By Jim Haworth
Making Wind Chimes By Jim Kirkpatrick
Wind Chimes Constructors Message Group