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From: cah@pdx.csd.mot.com (Chris Huey)
Newsgroups: comp.music,rec.music.makers
Subject: Re: Looking for bells
Summary: This is already (commercially) available...
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Date: 26 Oct 90 20:15:56 GMT
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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!

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