How to make wind chimes
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Making wind chimes is a really easy weekend project. If you decide to take the time to make a set, spend a little time making them sound pleasant.
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Check out Lee Hite's web site, "An Engineering Approach to Wind Chime Design". It contains everything -- and I mean everything -- you'll need to know about chimes:
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Thanks for this: I got all inspired and made one with my sons as a birthday present for my wife, almost entirely using hand tools, and it sounds and looks great. We also had a fantastic weekend in the workshop figuring out how to make it...
fan-freakin-tastic!! i came to YT after finding out how incredibly expensive these things are to buy. i know it won't be as easy for me as for you, but, at the price, it is worth a try! thanks for this.
Steve, the striker can be made of different materials to give a different sound effect. Also, a separator can be used to keep the tubes from banging together in higher or gusty wind. The striker will still be able to contact the individual tubes for a softer chime.
Thanks a bunch for the project idea!
Wow! Who knew electrical conduit would sound this nice!
I rediscovered this old video again today. I found a good bit of heavy steel pipe yesterday so my plan is to make a couple wind chimes. Thanks for the website reference as well as an excellent reference!
Beautiful chimes and clear, easy to follow instructions.
Great video Steve...like the fact you give credit where credit is due...God bless you for giving a precise video
Looks like Steve has got crafting skills .looks nice and sounds nice
Finished my first set today. This was a fun project.
Wonderful video! Wind chimes are such a joy, especially for mountainside living
Awesome projects, awesome background info,awesome video quality! Thanks, Steve! I have the top of an old tv antenna that looks kinda Buck Rogers, and an old chrome-plated steel bath curtain rod, gonna make a Buck Rod-gers chime!!
Dear lord, I have been searching for this information for months and I finally found it thanks to you. It's like trying to find the blueprints for secret geometry or something. Thank you for making this video.
Really great project. Thanks Steve
very good presentation. nice sounding chime.
What a great project! Thanks for showing us
First rate video, Steve! Just the right balance of detail and pace. Thanks!
That came out great.. very cool! Nice work Steve.
Sold. I've been reading the home-fuse-net site for a week now getting as much info as I could... a month ago I spotted some beautiful chies in a store that were HUGE & played awesome low notes. The price tag was $800!
Thanks for the tip on the Lee Hite site...fantastic resource, Thanks for posting!!! 🙂
That's pretty neat and sounds good. Maybe I will brave up and make my own. That website will come in handy for sure.
- Heidi
winter project, here i come!! and what a neat website, i hope it still exists
Nice work Steve!
I enjoyed this one more than I expected to, nice project!
Outstanding video. Very informative and the links for the sounds are fantastic.
Awesome project and video presentation Steve, thank you.
sounds great Steve!
Great Project, Thanks Steve!
Excelente video compañero. Gracias. Good video my friend, and thanks for upload the video, I´ve spent lot of time looking for some guide that worth it, but now I found it. Thanks.
Nice.... to me its sounds really nice... great tone choice. I love wind chimes!
Great job!
Very nice job, looks great, thanks for sharing.
NICE!! Thanks for sharing how to make a windchime. Love how you engineered the striker, very clever! Now I'm off to make a whole slew of em ;)
sounds very beautiful
Thank you for sharing your project
Video was well made and informative I forgot to mention. Thanks.
God bless you sir, that was a great instructional video, very informative. :)
Great results, Steve. Wouldn't it be great to mount it indoors. That way you would enjoy it and it wouldn't bother your neighbors while they sleep. So you need a silent twin outside, sending signals to the audible twin indoors (this one).
Excellent project well done.
I priced 3/4" steel conduit and 3/4" copper pipes. The conduit was about $4 for a 10' pc and copper was $10.50. I went with the copper because I like the way it weathers outside.
these are really nice sounding wind chimes. kudos from an educated musicologist!
Steve I might just have to build this one. Thanks for sharing.
Very nice presentation.
Well you've done it, you've made wind chimes awesome. Now I need to go and rethink my life.
Thanks Steve, I have some brass pipe and I've been putting off making a chime because I wasn't sure how to get the best sound. Maybe I'll have more confidence now.
mrsteve hartman: Where is the difficulty? I managed this with three boys and a set of hand tools in a couple of weekends and it looks and sounds lovely. It was our first woodworking project together as well.
thank you so much! we enjoyed that!
Good job I like the web site you found. Thanks Steve.
Great job!!!
great video and a nice project, it looks like a 10' length will give you a 5 note C major chord with just around an inch left over, no waste!
Thank you. I came looking for some tips. I intend to recycle some poles from a broken vacuum cleaner into a wind chime. Wish me luck!
By changing the length of the strings you can make the pipes top aligned, center aligned, or bottom aligned. Or misaligned if you wish.
Wow that's some good research there.
Another cool project to try.
Thanks Steve !
Eric
Kissimmee,Fl
Very helpful and video well made thanks....
thankya brother! good look!
Only draw back on this is ( been there done that) when you make one. All relatives wants one and now it goes from a fun project to a job.
Very nice info thank you
wow amazing
nice work :)
V.Good Job
Thank you for the info on the pipe lengths and stuff. I have a similar one but it is currently disabled with a rubber band due to high winds, didn't want my neighbors to kill it..haha
Love it
I like it to be different than most? Plus it sounds better.
You should showcase your projects at the end of a video a little more, for example film the wind chime do it's thing for 30 seconds. You could do this with your video links overlayed on the video too, make that screen a little more interesting :)
What did you use as your striker? I'm using 3/4" copper pipe and my longest piece is 16 5/8".
amazing. thx for sharing. :-)
Great looking project and great use of inexpensive materials by using the conduit for the chimes! I'm not a fan of wind chimes personally as they tend to annoy me after only a short time.
I've made mine using 20-25 fishing line but I think I'll try your method next time. Would sure like to have that chart you mentioned. Thanks for sharing this.
Thank you, Steve! I'll be making a couple of these as Christmas presents this year (I hope).
That's smart, now I want to try...
Cool-Project
thanks for the video Steve!
I have been making wind chimes and never had this great info. So it looks likes a new batch is coming up over the winter. 8-)
5*****
Okay, I will wait.
Very good
Really did enjoy the sound of the chimes. Maybe you could play it a little more. :-) Terrific project and very well done.
Este homem é Um jénio, não Há duvida.
Ya I know, it just brought back memories of sleepless windy nights, I moved and now all is better.
It would be interesting to tune the tubes to the notes of jingle bells for the christmas season. ;-)
Very clever with the troll face in my opinion. 0:17 left side of face.
The ones that hang at different lengths are usually made with copper or brass, the steel ones hang at the same length because the sound resonates differently in steel so you want the striker to hit in different spots unlike the copper or brass ones where you want them to hit in the same spots on the tubing.
thank you
Nice ;)
that is a really freaking big!!
Years ago I turned a pile of junk bicycle frames into wind chimes for Christmas gifts. Very little actual woodworking but I spent hours at with the grinder tuning each set to Eminor7th. Surprisingly, it was the cheap frames that sounded better. The high end ones just went "klunk"
Good video Steve...I used 50# fishing line and threaded continuously through the tubes. Looked good not seeing the hanging cord until the sun degraded the line and everything came crashing down - quite the racket - wouldn't recommend fishing line
glenn, similar story: favorite bracelet i made with drilled glass beads & many threads of fishing line. after wearing it continuously for a few months, clapped a mosquito in front of my face: fishing lines finally gave out: many crackle-glass beads sprayed all over room, bouncing off t.v & furniture .... looked both beautiful and ethereal, simultaneously :D
your aesthetic projects are nice. I enjoyed the video of the shishi odoshi(sp?) in action. You should do a complimentary video for this project too. Have you ever considered a sound garden?
Hi Steve, Firstly, thank you for posting this video - they look and sound great!
I would love to make one, however the link to "An Engineering Approach to Wind Chime Design" in the description is not working anymore. I was wondering if you able to provide the measurements or another link?
good stuff, learned a little too thanks, however could offer many upgrades
howdy, thanks for sharing your knowledge and taking the time to make this video for us. I now know why my chimes don't sound good. But I would like to know what cord is strong enough to hold the pipes (not chains). I live in New Mexico and the dry climate is not nice to wind chime cords or plastic. Thanks for any info. God Bless America and our troops .... deeman
Msgt D Oohrag I have the same question. I adore wind chimes, the California sun destroys the cord in no time. I want to restring a few.
Hi, happy holidays. Your video is already 11 years old, not sure if you're still doing chimes..the one you made had a beautiful sound. I collect bells and chimes, i like how the chimes sound when they catch the wind...and I know when it's really windy.
Not sure if those pipes are available where I am, the GI pipes won't due, maybe too heavy.
I'll try going o line for materials. Chimes are really expensive.
It makes sense to align the bottom not the top, the bottom of the chime is the best strike zone for a long tone.
Way cool. At 2 am when a storm comes through all your neighbors will know its windy. At 3 am your wife will tell you to take it down. Been there done that. Thanks Steve
Hi Steve. When they talk about "thin wall" EMT what would be your measurement for the wall thickness? 0.065? More, less? Thanks for any added info on this spec. The material I am finding at Lowe's says it's not "thin wall", but you could fool me at this point.
Very Cool. Now I have a new project I have to do.
those sound great
How to make a lower sounds of wind chimes.
longer pipes
I believe I have actually visited the website you mentioned.
The striker needs to strike at the "node" point which at 1/8th from the bottom.
have a bit of copper pipe
going to try this
Those chime tubes would look pretty amazing in the sunlight if they were cold-blued like a rifle barrel.
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I've always thought wind chimes were "Blair Witch" creepy but having watched this and visited the site you plugged I'm curious enough about the science to try making some. The sound of your set is amazing!
Donde puedo conseguir esa hoja que tiene las maduras y sonidos, aparentemente !!!!!
tha is one more good one for the books
YOu have to make the hanging holes 22.5% of the total length of the pipe from the top. If the pipes are more than 5 feet, that distance will be about 9.5 %. That will give you the sweet spot.
Greetings from Shiraz