The chime’s wind catcher depicts a butterfly framed among garden flowers. The light and airy tones of this Habitats Chime create a lively feeling and celebrate the variety of nature around us. From butterflies to blue whales, the Earth teems with life. Areas that sustain life are called habitats and each habitat is part of an interconnected system that makes the richness of our life on Earth possible. The butterfly’s habitat should be relatively sunny and windless. By contrast our Habitats Chime Butterfly Blossoms loves the wind and seems to flutter in the circular frame of the wind catcher. Our Habitats Chimes easily inhabit both indoor and outdoor settings and help those in earshot to keep balance with their environment. Woodstock Chimes are the original, musically-tuned, high-quality wind chimes known worldwide for their superior sound. When listening to a Woodstock Chime, you hear a fine musical instrument played by the wind, perfectly hand-tuned using the ancient system of “just intonation” based on natural harmonics. This means the frequencies at which the different chime tubes vibrate are related to one another by simple whole-number ratios. Tones that are related in this way produce the most beautiful musical intervals. The sonic effect is exceptionally pure and soothing. More than 30 years ago, the first Woodstock Chime was created by founder and owner Garry Kvistad from an aluminum lawn chair he found in a landfill. As a professional musician and instrument designer, he was fascinated by the Scales of Olympus, a 7th century pentatonic scale that can’t be played on a modern piano. Garry and his wife Diane founded Woodstock Percussion, Inc. in 1979 and it remains a family-owned business in New York’s Hudson Valley.