The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1905-12-28
RUNG BY BREEZES.
BELLS OF GLASS AND METAL
MAKE SWEET MUSIC.
Range in Price from twenty-five
Cents to Two Hundred Dol
lars-Where They Are
Used.

USed.
The wind bell, as its name implies.
is made to ring by the actioo OF the
wind. In fact the wind bell is not
bell at ALL strictly speaking, but
contrivance composed of a number of
pendants suspended in a circle from
a ring and hung close together so that
they will come into contact and pro-
duce sounds when swayed by the
winds.
Some wind bells produce sounds that
are very pleasing and musical. Some
are made with glass pendants, some
with pendants OF metal some are
small and very simple in construction.
others are large and massive and
elaborate
Wind bells range in price from 25
cents TO 5000 The original home of
The wind bell ia Japou.
Ia rs simplest form the wind bell is
composed Of number Of narrow
strips Of glass, perhaps six inches in
length. suspended lenpthwisa from a
wire ring about two inches in diam
cter Within the circle formed by the
strips thus suspended is hung by one
corner a little square piece Of glass
half way down the length of the long
strips, the strips and the square piece
being urnamented with various Japan
ese characters and designs. This wind
bell may he hung up wherever breeze
will strike It and blow the strips into
contact with one another and with the
square suspended among them.
But slightly more expensive than
this simplest form of wind bell are
others of glass, with pendants of diff
ferent lengths. and with number of
squares of different sizes, such a wind
bell producing a greater variety Of
tones.
Another inexpensive sort Of wind
bell has a number of very small bell
shaped metal objects suspended on
cord at different heights, with a cor
responding number of little glass balls
hanging from cords, to come into con-
tact with the metal objects when the
bell is swayed by the wind.
Still another not costly form Of wind
bell has for pendants a number of
variously colored leaf shaped pieces
of metal, metallic leaves of various
forms and sizes, suspended around
from ring by cords. The wind blows
these leaves together, producing-the
leaves being of different sizes and
thicknesses-a variety of musical
tones.
A metallic wind bell that sells for
S35 and occupies vertically a space of
about three feet has, suspended around
from a ring about d foot in diameter.
number of pendants. each composed
of several curious metal objects strung
one below the other. Below this circle
of pendants and hanging from the
center of the support OF the bell is a
cylindrical shaped lantern of metal,
the lantern being about a foot in
height
A larger wind bell Of metal, one that
sells for S75. has no lantern. but q
bigger hoop and longer and larger and
more numerous pendants, each COM
posed of several metal objects at
tacnel one below the other
A strange. If not grotesque, wind
metal one that sells for 5000
has for a top piece a solid metal con-
strurtion two feet or more in diameter
and shaped like a great shallow bowl
and here hanging inverted and with
the Pr ats hanging three feet or
nc IN length around from its outer
cage The pendants of this great wind
bell, each composed of a number of
oddly shaped objects suspended one
below the other along 1t, vary in
length and at the end of number
of the pendants hang odd small bells
with tongues.
Wind bells in their less expensive
and more familiar forms are hung on
porches in summer where the breezes
can play with them and make them
tinkle or produce their musical
sounds. In winter such wind bells
may be hung at windows more or less
likely to be opened at the top, where
the wind can strike them.
That wind bell of metal with the
lantern hanging below II would prob
ably be hung in hall. where 1t would
be sounded when tho door was opened.
The great wind bell would. In Japan,
be hung In some temples grounds,
and probably near the gate. Here II
would I've hung In a garden.