Our Story
In 1986, in the Pyrenean mountains, Kabir Kolkmeijer, passionate about music, set out in search of a magical and contemplative sound. It was in this landscape, at the heart of the elements, that an instrument inspired by harmony was born: the first harmonic rod chime.
A Love of Sound and Harmony
Kabir envisioned a simple instrument, but one of rare harmonic precision. An instrument that, with a single movement, could offer a sound experience that was at once in tune, alive and deeply sensitive.
From this intuition, the first rod chime was born.
An instrument shaped by hand, tuned note by note, in which wood, metal, rods and the balance of materials give rise to a pure and soothing vibration. An instrument whose craftsmanship and the random movement create a living sound, never quite the same, but always in tune and coherent.
A Universal Language
Very quickly, these sounds began to travel around the world. Without scores, without cultural codes, they resonated with musicians, families, in yoga studios, among sound practitioners, in classrooms and creative workshops.
Because Koshi speaks a universal language: that of harmony.
The Koshi chimes create endless streams of melodies, always beautiful and always surprising. Still today, each instrument is handcrafted in the Pyrenees, with the same care and the same high standards. Offering a true sound means for us to work with premium and durable materials, valuing the craftspeople who bring our instruments into being, and preserving the natural environment in which they are created.
Koshi continues to pursue the same ambition as at its beginnings: to contribute to a more peaceful and more united world, through the musical poetry of a sound that connects us to ourselves, to others and to the living world.
“I created these chimes for the pure love of harmonic sound. I would like to share this Koshi experience with you. Just for a moment, stay still and listen. You will be touched by the sound.”
The Golden Ratio in Koshi
Since Antiquity, a certain “divine” number has fascinated through the harmonious proportions associated with it, in nature as in the arts: the Golden Ratio, or phi. It can be found, for example, in the works of Salvador Dalí and the architect Le Corbusier.
It was only after several years of selling his first chimes that Kabir discovered that their dimensions, which he had defined intuitively, corresponded down to the millimeter to the proportion of the Golden Ratio.
Deeply astonished by this discovery, he then chose to consciously apply this same proportion when creating the Koshi chime, in order to establish visual coherence between the different elements of the instrument.
Listen, feel
the Koshi melodies
Each melody opens up a different quality of listening. Explore the collections, compare their soundscapes and choose the instrument that makes your heart beat.
