Xref: utzoo comp.music:2038 rec.music.makers:11146
Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uw-beaver!sumax!amc-gw!stuart
From: stuart@amc-gw.amc.com (Stuart Poulin)
Newsgroups: comp.music,rec.music.makers
Subject: Looking for bells
Message-ID: <3735@amc-gw.amc.com>
Date: 24 Oct 90 22:51:22 GMT
Reply-To: stuart@anabol.amc.com ()
Distribution: na
Organization: Applied Microsystems, Redmond, WA
Lines: 32

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