Theos-Talk Archives (February 2001 Message tt00059)

888 wrote:
> In the early days of the Theosophical Society they used a gong to begin the
> meeting.
> I think there's something in having a bell to start and end a study group.
> We know it's a regular practice for religious ritual. The tone of the bell
> reaches up into the spiritual world. Those recorded bells in some church
> steeples just aren't the same.

There is a product (I'm not sure of the manufacturer) called "windless
wind chimes". Essentially, it uses a magnetic piece at the end of the
clapper, and a randomly (or at least psuedo-randomly) moving magnetic
field. I used to set it up at the beginning of TS meetings in New York,
and it was rather well-received. 

> BTW Pelikan in his Secrets of Metals says the silver makes the best bells.

"What a world of merriment their melody fortells...."