Can you make your own set of windchimes?

Question

Can you make your own set of windchimes?

Answer 1

you can use shells,pearls and various kinds of stones,but i recommend scrap metals and recycled or used glass because they do not cost too much money and just hang them or tie them on strings and thats it

Answer 2

Oh, yes.  Thin wall conduit makes an impressive sound and is much cheaper than copper or aluminum.  Some notes here

http://users.ticnet.com/mikefirth/firthm...

with links to other places with length calculations.

Answer 3

Pieces of ceramic dishes make a really nice sound as wind chimes.  i don't know how to cut and drill them, but you can probably get them cheap at thrift stores and experiment.  Old silverware make fun wind chimes - use the silverware as the striking parts.  You can bend the tines of the forks or curl the spoon handles.  They look really funky and interesting.  Putting beads on the strings that you hang the objects from adds some color and sparkly.

  An important thing is to make sure the parts of the chime all dangle freely (the parts being the center pipe or whatever that the strikers are striking).

Answer 4

Piece of cake. You can make wind chimes out of anything. If you like the metalic sound then go to a hardware store, buy some copper pipe and cut in differant lengths. Drill a hole on one end only to tie them to a pipe going across the other way, see below how you'd arrange it.

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Crude picture above but you get the idea. Well, it looked good when I typed it but the formatting squished it all together. Think of it more spaced out. Varying lengths give differant tones. We have a wind chime made of sea shells which has a nice mellow sound. I've seen them made from bamboo, glass (bad idea as they break) and other things. The possibilities are limitless.