January 2010
Intermediate to advanced
176 pages
7h 54m
English
Sometimes it costs more to buy it than to make it from the money itself.

Photograph by Tom Parker
I’ve always liked wind chimes. Maybe it’s because I my parents had one hanging on the front porch when I was a kid. They’re usually made with pieces of glass, or shells, or hardened metal tubes. And anyone who’s jingled a pocketful of quarters knows that regular coins lack the sweet musical ring of a wind chime. But hammer them thin enough and those same coins play a different tune.
I tried pounding on a few coins with a hammer and anvil, blacksmith style. It worked OK, but it ...