Wind Chimes, Love 'Em or Hate 'Em?

SeaBreeze

SeaBreeze

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I do like the sound of gentle running water, like the small indoor or outdoor waterfalls. A long time ago, I thought I'd like wind chimes, until I bought a small one and hung it outside. Shortly afterwards, the metallic sound of the chimes became annoying instead of soothing, especially when the wind was brisk. Before I knew it I was taking them down and getting rid of them.

Some time after that, a neighbor put up some wind chimes on his house, they were bigger and louder. I never said anything about mine or his, but not too long after that, I noticed his was gone, and I wondered if he felt the same way about them.

Do you, or have you ever had wind chimes? Do you like them, hate them, or don't care either way?


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Hate them. My closest neighbor has them on her side porch facing me. I don't think she can even hear them.
 

I love windchimes, and the big ones seem to have a nicer lower tone. I got some big ones for a friend who hung them in a protected corner of his balcony with a minimal breeze, and the ringing is subtle and enjoyable.
 
I like wind chimes but it can get reeeally windy here. We had a wind chime hanging outside the kitchen window but it blew awaaaaay.....
 
I may not be interested in trying them again Cookie, but I would like to hear one that had a pleasing lower tone. I guess I only touched them with my fingers in the stores before I bought them, not a good idea of how they would sound in the wind.

Nancy, if I were you, I'd go over to her and ask if she really likes her wind chimes. She may not even remember she has them, or blocks them out willingly...she may even toss them. :p

Applecruncher, I know what you mean. Another thing, if I hear something strange or of concern in my yard or home, I would want as much silence as possible until I knew where the strange sound was coming from. In that case they'd be really irritating to me anyway.

It blew away Thomas! :eek: :D
 
I know what you mean, Seabreeze. I have a box in a closet of some smaller tinny ones, and I'm not spending a couple of hundred on new ones now. I'll just listen to a CD.
 
SeaBreeze said:
...Nancy, if I were you, I'd go over to her and ask if she really likes her wind chimes. She may not even remember she has them, or blocks them out willingly...she may even toss them. :p .... :eek: :D
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Yeah, she never goes out on that porch. But I know her too well. No use trying that. Besides, she has two sons. I'll bet one of them bought them for her.

I bought my mother a set of wind chimes years ago as a present. Theoretically it seemed like a neat idea. She never said she liked them, or didn't like them, but I couldn't stand them even just to visit, so I took them down one day. She never said a word.:)
 
I like the bamboo video, SB. Very pretty. The metal ones are nice too and it seems like someone is playing them.
 
Can't stand them. We had a neighbor years ago that had several of them hanging down the side of his house. It was like trying to sleep with a dryer full of jingle bells running right by your bed. I casually mentioned to him one day that they were rather loud and danged if he didn't put up a couple more. Glad we moved.
 
We have two; one like the top pic and one made out of sea shells.

They 're both nice to listen to in a gentle breeze. Don't
mind them at all. Better than dead silence; too eerie.
 
We have windchimes on both decks, and a fountain on the front deck.

When you aren't in the bathroom every ten minutes, the windchimes are really nice.
 
jujube said:
Can't stand them. We had a neighbor years ago that had several of them hanging down the side of his house. It was like trying to sleep with a dryer full of jingle bells running right by your bed. I casually mentioned to him one day that they were rather loud and danged if he didn't put up a couple more. Glad we moved.
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Aw, that's too bad. Sometimes neighbors are so inconsiderate. I have windchimes ( shells ) in back where it's all woods and there are no neighbors to be annoyed by them. I wouldn't put wind chimes where they might disturb someone else's rest.
 
I love wind chimes, especially lower tone. But it gets too windy here so we don't have any. Whenever I'm in a shop that has them I can't resist checking out the sound of all of them. Probably drives staff crazy.
 
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On my first trip to Big Sur in California about 20 years ago we stopped at the restaurant called Nepenthe's. We sat outside and there must have been a display of at least a dozen wind chimes. Slight breeze. Between the view and the chimes it was pure magic!

http://www.nepenthebigsur.com
 
I can't stand the ruddy things.:mad:
Tinkle Tinkle Tinkle all day and all night, particularly when it is very windy.
For a little while, then fine, but the very nature of them means that they go on and on and on and...
Trying to just have a quiet time in the garden is a pain if some pain of a neighbour has them jangling away all day.
Thankfully, our ground floor situation in a lovely Apartment by the sea, with a garden to ourselves means no one can bother us like that.:playful::D

Mind you, perhaps off topic, but I don't like Wind Farms either! :playful: Useless ugly things they are!:mad: Man made climate change my rear end! :mad:

So Come on.
Perhaps A new thread somebody?:D
 
boozercruiser said:
I can't stand the ruddy things.:mad:
Tinkle Tinkle Tinkle all day and all night, particularly when it is very windy.
For a little while, then fine, but the very nature of them means that they go on and on and on and...
Trying to just have a quiet time in the garden is a pain if some pain of a neighbour has them jangling away all day.
Thankfully, our ground floor situation in a lovely Apartment by the sea, with a garden to ourselves means no one can bother us like that.:playful::D

Mind you, perhaps off topic, but I don't like Wind Farms either! :playful: Useless ugly things they are!:mad: Man made climate change my rear end! :mad:

So Come on.
Perhaps A new thread somebody?:D
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Ditto on the wind farms. They cost a fortune to build and to run. My community fought another community across the loch which wanted to put in 5 as tall as Big Ben. A money making scheme by that community and an eyesore. And it's dead quiet here and we'd have been able to hear the hum of the turbines as the sound crossed the water. It would have been group tinnitus all night long.
 

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