In Buddhism, the gong is sounded at the start and end of each day. In Chinese temples, gongs are struck 108 times because it's believed that sentient beings have 108 types of worries. The teaching is this - upon hearing the gong, worries will cease, and wisdom will grow. The deep tones of this hand-hammered bronze gong are played by the peaceful winds of your environment or by hand. The authentic bronze gong design, the bold three-piece top, and the flaring wind catcher at the bottom all combine energetically indoors or out. A perfect companion to the Woodstock healing chime. 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 were the first Woodstock chime and are still one of our best-selling, musically-tuned wind chimes. Garry and his wife Diane founded Woodstock Chimes in 1979 and it remains based in new york’s hudson valley. Woodstock chimes - the world's favorite windchime.
