Browsing through Madrid, New Mexico today, I stumbled across some wonderful wind bells/gongs on display at the Range West gallery. These bells, made by the Truchas, NM artist Bill G. Loyd, are cut from recycled gas tanks (e.g. scuba tanks, CO2 canisters, O2 firefighter tanks, etc.). From Loyd’s bio, “the qualities of each [...]

Music of the Spheres, Inc. is the “Stradivarius of wind chimes.” Handmade out of powder-coated, aluminum alloy tubing, the chimes range in size from the average garden chime to the extraordinary 14-footer. Their chimes can be ordered in a surprisingly large variety of familiar or “exotic” tunings and you can even create your [...]

These are magical garden sculptures. Each one is designed to have water pumped through the trunk and out along the leaves.

In Santa Fe. Most of you know this.

Send in pictures of your garden musical instruments. Things like wind chimes, outdoor gongs, bells, fountains, musical sculptures, “wind banjos”, etc. Think solar, wind, water powered and beyond.
Rules:
1) The instrument must function without human interaction or electricity (unless solar powered).
2) You must have the legal rights to submit your instrument.

Requirements:
1) Photos
2) Description/story
3) Name [...]

The quarter-inch pipes are between 6 and 9 feet long with a diameter of six-and-a-half inches. They produce the most beautiful tones I’ve ever heard, soft and sweet. The entire instrument, tuned to a pentonic scale in D, is about 16 feet tall, weighs 400 pounds and is currently accessible to the public [...]