Japanese Wind Chimes
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- Опубликовано: 12 май 2012
- While shopping for some items to plant in my garden, I saw some nice wind chimes in the outdoor garden section of www.bellsseedstore.com/ The set I liked retailed for $159.00 and I felt that was outside my budget for 5 tubes and some string.
I wanted a Japanese sound, and found a nice little wind chime program at www.sagebrush.com/ to help me find the best notes. The Yoo scale (a Japanese scale from the Edo Period) used the notes C, D#, F, G, A# so that's what I chose.
home.fuse.net/engineering/Chim... was my introduction to making wind chimes, and I downloaded a Chime Emulator -- and wrote down the frequencies for the notes. The Chime Emulator has a feature to Estimate Tube Lengths. I randomly assigned a starting value for Tube Length 100, entered the Frequency for the High A#, then calculated the relative tube lengths of all the notes from there
These chimes were built from 2" ID - 2 3/8" OD seamless aluminum tubing I purchased from McCune Technologies www.mccune1.com/ I guessed at the length I needed and my budget constrained me to a 16' section at a cost of $120.00 picked up on site, although the stock was available up to 20' long.
The relative tube lengths had to be adjusted to fit my 16' pipe, and ended up 2.76 3.01 3.18 3.37 3.68 feet each. I got out my chop saw w metal blade and attempted a test cut at the end of the 16' pipe. The guy at McCune cut it a little long, so I had a bit to play with. The cutoff blade didn't work worth a dang, so I had to use the Sawz-All to remove the scored metal. A manila folder wrapped around the tube worked fine to trace a square line around the pipe, and a steady hand and fine tooth blade produced a smooth square cut end.
I started with the longest cut first, but when I got to the shortest and last cut, I realized I had forgot to calculate the metal removed from the length with each cut, so I split the difference and ended up with the last two sections 3/16" short.
How the pipes get hung is critical to nice tones. Eighth inch holes were drilled at 22% tube length from the end 180 degrees apart, and tension pins installed to keep the holes from wearing. A 6" piece of bailing wire ran thru the pins, and the tips bent to 90 degrees to keep the wire from sliding back into the pipe. The wire was pulled tight from the inside of the tube towards to top opening, and a inverted V notch created to attach the 550 cord inside the pipes.
I still haven't settled on the perfect striker, but the chimes made a nice Mother's Day present for my wife. She was happy, and they do have a fine Japanese tone to them. 
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15 THOUSAND VIEWS????? You're a beast!!
Cool
It sounds like cosmic Japanese Anime
windchime gentanada good
They have a lovely sound, where did you purchase them?
I bought a 20 foot pipe and cut it. Through each pipe 2/5ths from the top, I drilled a hole and ran a wire to hang them by. I would like to add one more pipe, then hang them in a circle. They sound much nicer in real life.
Ha! I thought I was inventive . . Is it just regular steel pipe? Did you vary the lengths to adjust sounds?
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This is not exactly Japanese Wind chime, Furin. 🎐was like the emoji, made by hand