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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 21
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 21

by Mark Frauenfelder
January 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
176 pages
7h 54m
English
Make: Community
Content preview from Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 21

MAKE MONEY: Wind Chimes

By Tom Parker

Sometimes it costs more to buy it than to make it from the money itself.

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Photograph by Tom Parker

$34.99: Wind chime bought online.

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 ...

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