TABLESPOON CHIMES.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 June 1931, Page 21 (Supplement)

TABLESPOON CHIMES.

Every boy and girl likes the sound or cathedral bells and chimis. If you wish to imitate them, measure off five feet of ordinary white wrapping twipe. Knot the ends together. Tie the middle of this doubled string around the handle of a silver tablespoon. Fasten it tight enough to stay about hali-way between the bowl of the spoon and the top end of the handle. See that the spoon is in the middle of the doubled string. Wrap the end loops once or twice around your little fingers. Now you are ready to ring the tablespoon chimes and produce tones that will surprise you. Lightly push the tips of your fingers, on which the twine is wound, into your ears. Stand back about, a foot from a wooden table, stoop so low aS to let the bowl of the spoon dangle against the edge of the table. Be careful that the spoon touches nothing but the wood.

After a little practice you can so regulate the striking of the spoon against the table edge as to produce many different tones. These tones may also be changed according to whether you hold your fingers tightly or loosely in your ears.