stuart@amc-gw.amc.com (Stuart Poulin) (10/25/90)
To the tune of "Silent Night": ding ding ding dong ding ding ding dong ding ding dong ding ding dong ( I've already heard this on Store muzac ) I'd love to have this playing on real bells but an having trouble locating any. What I have in mind is a Christmas project of a micro controller activating solenoid strikers to play songs. I know how to do all the electronics and software but cannot seem to locate some bells. Anyone know where I can get some bells? They are going to go on a garland. So -- They have to look good. I'm looking for the fluted type, not the half round type that you might get out of an old phone or the bar type from a Glockenspiel(sp?). I'm a purist so the bells actually have to play. I don't want to have the bells for show and have hidden bars or speakers actually playing. They don't have to be concert quality but they do have to play in tune. A chromatic set would be nice but I bet most of the Christmas standards would play on 1.5 to 2 octave diatonic scale, although - the more bells the merrier. Any Ideas? Thanks Stuart Poulin DNS: stuart@amc.com Applications Engineer/System Administrator Applied Microsystems Corporation UUCP: amc-gw!stuart Redmond, Washington 98073 Dial: (206) 882-2000
cah@pdx.csd.mot.com (Chris Huey) (10/27/90)
In article <3735@amc-gw.amc.com>, stuart@amc-gw.amc.com (Stuart Poulin) writes: [Silent Night deleted] > > I'd love to have this playing on real bells but an having trouble > locating any. What I have in mind is a Christmas project of a micro > controller activating solenoid strikers to play songs. I know how to > do all the electronics and software but cannot seem to locate some > bells. > > Anyone know where I can get some bells? > > They are going to go on a garland. So -- They have to look good. I'm > looking for the fluted type, not the half round type that you might get > out of an old phone or the bar type from a Glockenspiel(sp?). I'm a > purist so the bells actually have to play. > ... I just recently moved to Oregon from Colorado so I'm not sure if they have what you're looking for here on the West Coast or not, but... Last year at Xmas time, I was wandering thru the malls and heard small bells playing a variety of Xmas songs (Silent Night included). The store where these bells were coming from was a Christmas Specialty store. They sold these bells (complete with garland) for around $100.00. It played around 30-40 songs (as I recall) and was wonderful to listen to (at least for a while). You should be able to find them around the time they start pushing all the Xmas stuff (around August, I believe) ps: Mom loved 'em as her Xmas present! -- Chris Huey Motorola Inc., Computer Systems Division chuey@pdx.csd.mot.com . . . tektronix!reed!cvedc!mcspdx!chuey Voice: (503) 643-6247 . . . . uunet!apple!motcsd!mcspdx!chuey "Still crazy after all these years..."