This was created as the sound of bullets hitting robots. I dropped coins on a music stand and then pitch shifted them. Oktava 012 microphone through neve preamp and apogee mini-me a/d.
Its thin metal cow bell recorded with a zoom h4n. It was a present from my recent show at canberra rep - gaslight 2015. It could be used as a muffin man bell - could a muffin man in victorian london afford a big bell?.