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Velvet 04-12-2020 05:29 PM
If you like the sound of wind chimes listen to them on your headphones... don’t make EVERYBODY else listen to them too.

Mikeod 04-12-2020 06:27 PM
We have a set that we use only when we use the lanai. My wife cut up a pool noodle into small sections that slide over the individual pipes and prevent the striker from contacting them. We place those on the chimes whenever we’re not outside. We never leave the chiming when we’re not there and we don’t leave them chiming for more than a half hour or so even when we’re out there.

Velvet 04-12-2020 08:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Mikeod (Post 1745279)
We have a set that we use only when we use the lanai. My wife cut up a pool noodle into small sections that slide over the individual pipes and prevent the striker from contacting them. We place those on the chimes whenever we’re not outside. We never leave the chiming when we’re not there and we don’t leave them chiming for more than a half hour or so even when we’re out there.
Thoughtful and considerate.

DianeM 04-12-2020 08:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Mikeod (Post 1745279)
We have a set that we use only when we use the lanai. My wife cut up a pool noodle into small sections that slide over the individual pipes and prevent the striker from contacting them. We place those on the chimes whenever we’re not outside. We never leave the chiming when we’re not there and we don’t leave them chiming for more than a half hour or so even when we’re out there.
Thank you

JanetMM 04-12-2020 09:55 PM
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Originally Posted by EdFNJ (Post 1744684)
:1rotfl: Love it! Great idea. Like the noise torture the armed forces sometimes used. We took our kids to Disney the year after it opened and when I walked out of that "ride" I was ready to scream. They loved it and we had to go 2 more times (ahhh, the days of the A, B,C D, E tickets) . From what I understand it's still the same but they are supposedly "updating" it. Every time we go now my wife dares me to take it again.
My family once got stuck on it! WE were stuck but the blasted music kept going on and on and on and....😱

Ginny Scott 04-13-2020 08:45 AM
I can’t stand wind chimes either!
I would agree they should be banned! Especially with each & every neighbor having
several each!😡
No sense at all!

valuemkt 04-13-2020 08:55 AM
Be thankful for the nearly constant breeze that cuts the heat.
For the constant and incessant complainers, buy some cheese on your next grocery run. It will go perfectly with your whine.

coffeebean 04-13-2020 10:47 AM
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Originally Posted by kcrazorbackfan (Post 1744892)
The cranky complainers are the ones that get on TOTV and complain to everyone about everything they don’t like but WILL NOT man up (or lady up) and go talk to the source of the problem.
I don't consider myself "cranky". I just value serenity, especially when the serenity I seek is in my own home.

beth chang 04-13-2020 10:48 AM
Did it really work for the Homeless in Waikiki? Moved from Honolulu 2 yrs ago homeless is a huge problem Didn't think anything could disperse them.

coffeebean 04-13-2020 10:52 AM
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Originally Posted by davem4616 (Post 1744959)
........one of our abutting neighbors has wind chimes, sits out back and front smoking cigarettes....and has an annoying little dog that barks at everything and they let the thing out alone at night to do poop where ever
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Is the "where ever" on you property too? If that is the case, I would gather up the poops and place them right outside their front door. Speaking to them about the issues seems futile. I hope they would get the message.

coffeebean 04-13-2020 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by 2inflorida@gmail.com (Post 1744964)
True Windchimes should sound as a lovely chord does on a piano. I happen to have a windchime in the key of C. Each chime is a part of a C chord. Lovely.
The sound of a lovely cord on the piano is enchanting. However, not knowing when the next lovely cord will chime from a wind chime in is an absolute distraction to me. And.......that is 24/7 as long as there is a breeze. HATE THOSE DAMN THINGS!!!!!

Velvet 04-13-2020 11:32 AM
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Originally Posted by beth chang (Post 1745551)
Did it really work for the Homeless in Waikiki? Moved from Honolulu 2 yrs ago homeless is a huge problem Didn't think anything could disperse them.
Yes it worked while they played the music, they also used the “Baby Shark” song. The Hawaiians seem very partial to their homeless and generally gentle with them. Several are full time workers, your grocery clerk, bank teller etc who cannot afford the expensive accommodations. Then there are the mentally ill, and druggies and they like to come to Waikiki where the rich tourists are.

Boomer 04-13-2020 01:08 PM
another take on wind chimes
 
May I suggest watching “Body Heat” (1981) and you will never again hear wind chimes without thinking of that movie.

It is set in Florida and and the weather is not the only thing steamy. “Body Heat” stars Kathleen Turner and William Hurt. Richard Crenna is in it, too, as the rich husband.

William Hurt is a lawyer and damned dumb — not thinking with his brain.

600th Photo Sq 04-13-2020 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Two Bills (Post 1744854)
We have a rookery within 50 yards of our garden, and jackdaws nesting all around.
No way are you going to hear wind chimes, which is absolutely fine by me!
Just a FYI many here have no idea what a rookery/jackdaws are. We do ,have close ties with the UK,( family ).

A Rookery ( Rooks) and Jackdaws are a natural sound, compared the artificial very annoying sound of windchimes.

Plus they are entertaining and very clever as you know. :)

billlaur 04-14-2020 06:52 AM
me too very relaxing nothing like a good windchime...


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