{"id":1733,"date":"2026-04-07T16:35:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.soundhealingspirit.com\/?p=1733"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:23:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:23:49","slug":"amazing-grace-played-by-a-breeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soundhealingspirit.com\/?p=1733","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Grace Played by a Breeze?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:19px\"><br><em>Listening changes with expectation.<\/em><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:19px\">There are certain melodies we recognize almost instantly. <em>Amazing Grace<\/em> is one of them. When a wind chime is tuned to its notes, what we hear is not the melody itself, but a gentle suggestion of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:19px\">I recently received an <em>Amazing Grace<\/em> wind chime. It has six cylindrical tubes of different lengths (the longer the tube, the lower the tone), tuned to the opening notes of Amazing Grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:19px\">Curious about how the chime was arranged, I began experimenting with it manually. I found that if the tubes are struck in a circular motion, the melody can be heard. It is somewhat difficult to do, as the spacing between the tubes and the striker is small, so other notes often get mixed in. With some patience, however, the melody can be sounded clearly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:19px\"><em>Amazing Grace \u2013 opening notes (struck)<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.soundhealingspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Amazing-Grace-Normalized.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:19px\">Producing the next phrase (\u201chow sweet the sound\u201d) is not possible with these notes, since additional tones would be required. The closing phrase of the hymn, \u2014\u201cwas blind, but now I see\u201d\u2014can also be played on the chime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:19px\"><em>Amazing Grace \u2013 \u201cWas Blind, But Now I See\u201d (struck):<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio aligncenter\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.soundhealingspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Now-I-See-Normalized.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:19px\">When the wind moves the chime naturally, the notes sound at random. The melody itself is never heard\u2014only suggested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:19px\"><em>Wind chime in its natural setting (with creek in background):<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.soundhealingspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ramdom-Normalized.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:19px\">However, simply knowing how the chime is tuned changes how I listen. I listen more closely, with a sense that the melody might emerge. It seems to me this is what sets a chime like this apart from others that don\u2019t suggest a melody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:19px\">The breeze does not play the hymn. It simply moves through the notes. The rest is something we bring in with our listening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reflection on an Amazing Grace wind chime. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-sound-reflections"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Amazing Grace Played by a Breeze? 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