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Making your own wind chime |
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How to make your own wind chimeIf you've been wanting to make your own wind chime, the following steps will help you along your wind chime making ways. However, there are no "set of rules" in how to make your wind chime so however you do make it, just enjoy it! There are many different aspects in making a wind chime. The way a wind chime sounds does not necessarily depend on only one factor such as how long the chimes should be. This would vary depending on the type of "music" you want coming from the wind chime. Other questions you should consider are what kinds of chord you want, how should you arrange them, or how big the clapper/centerpiece should be. Starting off first, you'll want to decide on the material type you want your wind chime to be. The tone of your wind chime will largely depend on this such as choosing wood, bamboo, steel, aluminum, brass, or other alloy materials. To get soft tones (i.e. a rubber ball hitting a glass bottle), soft materials such as copper should be used. For sharper tones (i.e. hitting a glass bottle with engineer's hammer). For examples of the soft and sharp tones, you can listen to a wind chime yourself-- small wind chimes are usually made with a sharper tone while larger wind chimes (usually one foot or larger) will have a soft tone. You should also have ready the decision of how thick you want the wall of the tube or solid cylinder to be and how your wind chime will hang when they strike one another as these factors will affect the tone of the wind chime as well. With wind chimes, keep in mind that the whistling pitch is largely dominated by the length of the air column that's used, as the vibrating air is what makes it "whistle". Although it's the material used for the pipe that determines what the "voice" of the pipe will be, the air column of the pipe is what the sector that determines what the pitch will be. Next is the cutting of the wind chime. For this, you can use an abrasive blade such as a chop saw or a toothed blade. However, you should also take into consideration what material you'll be working on with the tool. For example, if you're working with aluminum, know that its dust is very flammable so you shouldn't let it accumulate. There is basically no "perfect" cut-- the cutting of the wind chime will usually be determined by trial and error. The basics, however, for the sound and pitch of a wind chime can be estimated by the following cuts: First, a chime that's cut in half will produce a tone that's about 4 time the frequency as the original length (pitch wise, it'd be about 2 more octaves up). In going from one melody note to the next, the frequency difference will be about 1.06 (i.e. note e to f or such). You can usually get the next note for chimes by square rooting the present number each time-- listening can also help to detect notes that are out of tune. All in all, making sure the chimes are properly cut to length is an important factor if you're wanting a "tuned" wind chime. Besides the pitch
and tone of the wind chime, there are also a few scales of music to
choose. Some scale examples include an "equal tempered" scale that
uses 8 spaced tones (although it "should" revolve around 12 tones
instead of 8) as well as a pentatonic scale (5 tones). Ensuring that
the spacing between chimes and clapper as well as the order the
chimes are placed in will also add significant positives to your
wind chime. Typically, the clapper shouldn't be "allowed" to hit
more that two chimes at a time, the weight should be evenly
distributed throughout the wind chime (no uneven wind chime) and the
chimes should dispose "pleasing" music when they hit one another. |
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