The World's Largest Tuned Musical Windchime was erected by windchime artist, Ranaga Farbiarz, in the parking area of Celestial Windz Harmonic Bizaar, south of
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
Eureka Springs is a city in Carroll County, Arkansas, United States, and one of two county seats for the county. It is located in the Ozark Mountains of northwest Arkansas, near the border with Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the city populati ...
on Thursday, November 4, 2004.
Construction
With the help of a bucket truck, a tall oak tree, his son David, and numerous friends, the chime was erected on site from prepared components in front of approximately 100 onlookers. The chime is dedicated to Ranaga's late father, Ignatz Farbiarz, a
Holocaust
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Survivor.
The six metal pipes are tuned in an Oriental pentatonic scale, like the black keys on a piano, with the longest and shortest tubes emitting notes an octave apart. The deepest toned tube is long and "sounds like a combination Cathedral Bell, Tibetan Singing Bowl and Jet engine." The shortest is and has a rich Cathedral-like sound. The overall length of the chime is , easily beating the previous record of
The instrument is made from four-inch (102 mm) diameter, thick-walled aluminum tubing. The total weight of the chime is 653 pounds with the musical tubing alone weighing 310 pounds. The by wooden pyramidal shaped top weighs 225 pounds. The center hung circular wood knocker is 3' 6" in diameter and weighs 64 pounds. A long by wide Celestial Wind Dervish which Ranaga makes out of recycled local and imported woods is used as the windcatcher and weighs 18 pounds. The down rods and miscellaneous hardware weigh 36 pounds. Ranaga calls it the "Wind Chime of Mass
Distraction" (WMD) because it is made with the same size and grade aluminum sought by the weapons inspectors in Iraq.
Farbiarz was notified via a formal letter, dated Feb. 9th 2006, from the
Guinness World Records
''Guinness World Records'', known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as ''The Guinness Book of Records'' and in previous United States editions as ''The Guinness Book of World Records'', is a reference book published annually, listing world ...
Management Team. The letter conveyed the Guinness Team's congratulations upon Farbiarz's achievement of the world record of the largest set of windchimes, and was accompanied by a certificate of commemoration.
Guinness World Records; Wind Chimes.
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See also
* World's largest windchime
References
External links
Wind Chime Puts Arkansas Town in Guiness [sic] Records
from National Public Radio
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