World’s Largest Windchime
Eureka Springs
World’s Largest Windchime
Eureka Springs
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Eureka Springs
World’s Largest Windchime
Eureka Springs
World’s Largest Windchime
Eureka Springs
World’s Largest Windchime
Eureka Springs
Eureka Springs
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World’s Largest Windchime
Eureka Springs
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World’s Largest Windchime
World’s Largest Windchime
World’s Largest Windchime
With the help of a bucket truck, a 100-foot (30 m) 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
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
20 feet (6.1 m) long and "sounds like a combination Cathedral Bell, Tibetan Singing Bowl
and Jet engine." The shortest is 14 feet (4.3 m) and has a rich Cathedral-like sound. The
overall length of the chime is 35 feet 10 inches (10.92 m), easily beating the previous record
of 16 feet 8 inches (5.08 m)
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 6-foot (1.8 m) by 8-foot (2.4 m) wooden pyramidal shaped top weighs 225
pounds. The center hung circular wood knocker is 3' 6" in diameter and weighs 64 pounds. A
4-foot (1.2 m) long by 2-foot (0.61 m) 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 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
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