# Wind Chimes **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 26, 2002, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wind-chimes/144984 "2002-12-26T16:44:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wind-chimes/144984/41 "2016-10-05T02:55:39Z")
> [@zwaldd](#): > > Am I the only person who can’t stand these despicable things? [No](https://youtu.be/GGa9RyFLldA). ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wind-chimes/144984/42 "2016-10-05T03:12:41Z")
I like 'em…but they’ve got to be soft. The kind that are so loud you simply can’t ignore them – that’s a rude intrusion on the neighbors. (If they made an electronic indoors simulator, I’d buy it! I’d turn the volume way down, but I’d have it going.) (A quick search turns up lots of apps! I’ve got one going right now and like it. But I was thinking of stand-alone hardware.) ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wind-chimes/144984/43 "2016-10-05T04:02:24Z")
I’m thinking that you could try something really passive-aggressive and spray a solution of salt and sugar on to the wind chimes that would attract squirrels and birds and God knows whatever else kind of vermin. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wind-chimes/144984/44 "2016-10-05T19:01:07Z")
I would think that after 14 years those wind chimes have probably rotted away. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wind-chimes/144984/45 "2016-10-05T22:31:42Z")
Not mine. Rebuilt all the wood bits and they’re gigantic! Sound like bells instead of chimes. The Balinese believe they drive off Evil Spirits so…😃 ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wind-chimes/144984/46 "2016-10-06T01:27:00Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > [No](https://youtu.be/GGa9RyFLldA). I know this is a zombie thread, and I personally like windchimes, but … that was pretty funny. \*Obligatory I-live-in-Indonesia remark: \*The traditional Balinese “windchimes” are not chimes per se – they are bamboo, and make a soothing tok-tok noise. Aside from any spirits they might scare off, as a more practical matter they are employed to keep birds from eating rice kernels in the padi. ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wind-chimes/144984/47 "2016-10-06T01:44:56Z")
I am HOH and when I am outside I can hear my neighbor wind chimes and I can’t stand the sound . My hearing aid really pick it up, I would rather be hearing the winds or birds. I can turn my HA down and that helps . I have wind chimes but I have them inside just for looks . I got them for gifts. Some people hang them outside to keep animals away from the house. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wind-chimes/144984/48 "2016-10-06T03:09:11Z")
Last summer there was some asshole with wind chimes about a block away. I couldn’t usually hear them, but when I settled on my front porch with one of my rare occasional cigars and a glass of rum, sure enough that would be the time that the wind was strong enough and in exactly the right direction to create a sort of faint dinging resonance that penetrated right into my brain. I had fantasies about going over to wherever the hell it was coming from either with a shotgun or with a pot of epoxy resin and a big brush. Fortunately some kind soul, possible someone closer to the hellworks, had already complained or glued or shot them down. There was no hint of them this entire summer, thankfully. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wind-chimes/144984/49 "2016-10-06T05:37:01Z")
We have a beautiful set of wind chimes that my aunt gave us after my grandfather died. If you don’t like them, too bad. I live two streets over from a church, which is across the street from a volunteer fire department, and a street just across from THAT is the railroad crossing. Trust me, between bells, fire alarms, and train whistles, the chimes are nothing. I could sleep through a war. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wind-chimes/144984/50 "2016-10-06T06:16:32Z")
> [@zwaldd](#): > > Am I the only person who can’t stand these despicable things? I live in an apartment, and my upstairs neighbors have installed not one, but two of these units out on their balcony, which is about 15 feet or so from both my bedroom window and my living room sliding glass door. Now any time the wind is blowing at a decent clip, I get to listen to the sound of clanging metal. > **[Silly String](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silly_String)** > > Silly String (generically known as aerosol string) is a toy of flexible, sometimes brightly colored, plastic string propelled as a stream of liquid from an aerosol can. The solvent in the string quickly evaporates in mid-air, creating a continuous strand. Silly String is often used during weddings, birthday parties, carnivals and other festive occasions, and has also been used by the US military to detect tripwires. > Silly String is made of a mixture of components dispersed throughout a liquid so... ---
**Author:** ![Dingbang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@Dingbang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dingbang)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wind-chimes/144984/51 "2016-10-06T20:21:35Z")
Once lived in a condo where the neighbor upstairs had several sets of wind chimes on her deck, which seemingly never stopped ringing. She tended to go on vacation for weeks at a time, so she didn’t have to hear it. Three times she came back and her wind chimes had all fallen to the ground below. She asked once if we’d had a big storm in her absence, and I said yes. We hadn’t, but I had become adept at using three broomsticks duct taped together. She finally stopped replacing them. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wind-chimes/144984/52 "2016-10-06T21:07:54Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > I live two streets over from a church, which is across the street from a volunteer fire department, and a street just across from THAT is the railroad crossing. Trust me, between bells, fire alarms, and train whistles, the chimes are nothing. I could sleep through a war. Maybe you’ve gone deaf from all the racket. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wind-chimes/144984/53 "2016-10-06T23:51:45Z")
> [@Dingbang](#): > > Once lived in a condo where the neighbor upstairs had several sets of wind chimes on her deck, which seemingly never stopped ringing. She tended to go on vacation for weeks at a time, so she didn’t have to hear it. Three times she came back and her wind chimes had all fallen to the ground below. She asked once if we’d had a big storm in her absence, and I said yes. We hadn’t, but I had become adept at using three broomsticks duct taped together. She finally stopped replacing them. Given your username, YOU should have been the one with too many windchimes. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wind-chimes/144984.md?page=2)