Wind Chime Length Calculator (2022)

54 pointsposted 18 days ago
by hyperific

18 Comments

rossjudson

12 days ago

Tuning matters! After my daughter complained about how the toms on her new drums sounded like crap, I bought a Tune-Bot (drum tuner), asked Gemini to help me make her toms sound like Dirty Loops, and got busy.

A few hours later, she pronounced them to be "not bad". Win! I wasn't going to get higher praise out of a teenager anyway.

brudgers

15 days ago

If I was tuning wind chimes, I would probably use Just intonation, not equal temperament because a wind chime play in different keys.

Exceptional circumstances excepted of course.

Ylpertnodi

12 days ago

> Exceptional circumstances excepted of course.

ECEOC?

I have used 'BOCTAOE' (but of course there are obvious exceptions) in the past, but, guilt by association, kinda stopped all that.

brudgers

12 days ago

I write such things because the internet gonna' internet and I'm feeling too old for that shit.

linuxguy2

12 days ago

https://leehite.org/Chimes.htm is the best source of information I've found on chime design and length. They go into great length about the lower octaves and how you can hear them (or not).

scrumper

12 days ago

The linked site acknowledges Lee Hite actually. I suspect it's not a crowded field :)

The suspension point calc is particularly neat, I suppose putting it at a null node in the tube vibration so it doesn't damp it.

dylan604

12 days ago

The clanky sounds of cheap bamboo or the high pitched screeching of tiny metal chimes are not pleasant. I have two sets of tuned chimes in my garden that are 1" diameter. They both have 6 chimes that are tuned as a set, but they are also tuned when heard together. One set has longer chimes than the other, so when heard together the chords are much richer.

I know it sounds bougie as hell, but it's really quite a nice effect.

aaarrm

12 days ago

Where did you get them if you don't mind me asking

Also do you know the material of the metals? I wonder if it'd be worth it to have them in different metals for different timbres. Like two different instruments

SoftTalker

12 days ago

Do they stay (relatively) in tune with temperature changes?

phkahler

12 days ago

That seems like an argument for using the same material. Different metals will expand more or less with temperature variations. If they all chance a fixed percentage the tonal ratios should be preserved.

dylan604

12 days ago

I'm in Texas, so we have warm, hot, hotter. I've never noticed a difference from temp changes. Whether it has an effect or not, I haven't noticed.

JKCalhoun

12 days ago

Had to look up "Solfeggio Healing Frequencies".

There are plenty of 9-hour long YouTube videos (example [1]) cycling through the frequencies. Apparently to be played while you sleep.

[1] https://youtu.be/iXL_MupS6NQ

tecleandor

12 days ago

Nice, although a metric version would be helpful :D

SpaceNoodled

12 days ago

Divide inches by 25.4 for millimeters

dubcanada

12 days ago

Times inches by 25.4 for mm, there is 25.4mm in every inch.

bloggie

12 days ago

I don't see the unit shown anywhere, is the calculator unit-agnostic?