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I love the sound of wind chimes. I don't have any, though. A friend of mine has her deck covered in them, and I love to sit in the comfy swing on her deck and hear the gentle breeze brush against the chimes.


i'm right there with ya sister Big Grin

i put windchimes and sun catchers around my deck when we moved in our house. i did this while my wife was at work. when she came home, she freaked and said the neighbors would think we're hippies. she got used to it and doesn't give me a hard time about them anymore.
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ZCrusader, the first thing you need to know and accept is...

"He that angers you controls you..."

Now, you do not want to get into a situation where you maliciously destroy his private property; however, you might consider putting up your own set of "wind chimes", on his side of your house, constructed of large, galvanized steel garbage can lids..or something equally obnoxious. When you mow, blow the clippings and dust toward his property, play loud obnoxious rap music late at night..well, you know, beat him at his own game.
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Originally posted by SHELDIVR:
ZCrusader, the first thing you need to know and accept is...

"He that angers you controls you..."

Now, you do not want to get into a situation where you maliciously destroy his private property; however, you might consider putting up your own set of "wind chimes", on his side of your house, constructed of large, galvanized steel garbage can lids..or something equally obnoxious. When you mow, blow the clippings and dust toward his property, play loud obnoxious rap music late at night..well, you know, beat him at his own game.


Or he could take up learning to play the drums. The benefit would be weekend income because bands are always looking for drummers.
All this over wind chimes?

I just have to ask...
Is "management" synonymous with "ownership" in this case? Without knowing specifics about your situation, it sounds like you may be in an RV park or resort environment when you mention "recreational area." Am I close? Many of these places have voluminous regulations in place regarding what can and cannot take place and many times they are very vague. Take a look at any agreements that are in place and use them to your advantage. There may be things in place already prohibiting nuisance noises that "management" just chooses not to enforce to make things run more smoothly among the residents. If you call this to their attention and give them no choice they may be forced to act. Who has the ownership interest here? Do you both rent? Is there a lease involved?
Look at the fine print and use it to your advantage. Any kind of owners association to hear an appeal?

Seriously, they are just wind chimes. I have a set (low toned, church bell types) that I love but it takes a lot to make them work.
Wind chimes need wind right? How close are you to his spot? You have several options.

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By PAULENE POPARAD

January is for ..... our love/hate relationship with wind chimes.
Someone recently told me they moved to a new home and couldn’t sleep for three nights because a neighbor had wind chimes on their deck and the sound, to my friend, was incredibly annoying.
Yet I went out on a limb this past Christmas and when asked to purchase a gift from a group of us for our boss, I chose wind chimes. What gives?
I used to believe the sound made by those little tinkling, jangling, nerve-grating metal tubes was not intended for the human ear. Perhaps for some deep-sea creature or elf princess of Middle Earth, but not us. I found no redeeming value in wind chimes at all.
That’s until I heard ones properly constructed and tuned as the musical instrument they are meant to be. I am now a believer. But that’s not to say our yard is a gonging, resonating cacophony of notes all summer long. Far from it.
We keep our lone wind chime, 49 inches in full length and tuned to the scale of A, indoors for two reasons. We initially put it outside but on a windy day it proved to be too much of a good thing. A perfect spot turned out to be indoors near the back door where in nice weather cross ventilation prompts a more muted wind chime song.
The second reason it’s fun to have them indoors is so the granddaughters can make them chime whenever they want. The ear-to-ear grin on Emma’s face, at 18 months the youngest, is priceless.
Fortunately, better-quality wind chimes are available in local stores like The Schoolhouse Shop and Chesterton Feed and Garden, the latter where employee Barb Weimer gave me a short course in Wind Chimes 101 on the Music of the Spheres brand they sell.
Company president and CEO Sara Neal Eskew later said there are two kinds of wind chimes: the musically perfect ones, and the ones that drive someone with good hearing and a musical ear that detects off-pitches nuts. “It’s like the difference between a yacht and a rowboat.”
Her late husband Larry Roark used his degree in music theory to combine the physics of sound and musical scales from around the world resulting in chimes in six pitch ranges/sizes for each tuning for nature, not man, to play.
Different companies like Grace Note, Majesty Bells and Spirit Song offer different options. Larry’s chimes resound in soprano, mezzo soprano, alto, tenor and bass, each one a different tubing diameter and length. By having several chime sets, said Sara, harmony can be created.
Her gracious explanation of other aspects of their chimes’ sound was above me as my own musical background is limited to eight free accordion lessons when I was 12, and having Sharon Lindquist teach me in middle school to play the first 16 seconds of “Moonlight Sonata.”
Larry used many special tunings to evoke musical and even ethereal moods and to conjure up faraway places like Bali and China. Music of the Spheres also makes the imposing more than 85-inch tall Westminster chimes that sound like Big Ben.
Some believe wind chimes have a calming, even spiritual influence. “Ours are literally bio-feedback,” said Sara. “When you hear a good wind chime that sounds really great, the tensed-up muscles sort of relax a little.”
Some companies market their wind chimes as being tuned to personalized astrological planetary frequencies or to special scales that can affect human health. Can a wind chime’s resonance, vibration and energy have physical benefits?
Sara said while her company makes no such claim for their products, they do have customers who hold to that belief.
Wind chimes have been around from prehistoric times. Today everything from glass, wood, ceramic and seashells to precisely precisioned powder-coated, aluminum-alloy tubing is used to make wind chimes.

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