Friday, January 1, 2010

Wind Chimes - Relaxing Vibrational Sounds Resonating From Your Garden

By Wendy Criswell

Have you heard while walking past someones garden and enjoyed the sounds of their wind chimes? These beautiful musical instruments are by far the best way to enhance your garden by harvesting the wind or gentle breezes.

Ever thought of placing a few in strategic places around your garden? They can offer up an array of different sounds depending on their size and shape of the flutes.

Here are a few tips on how to get your started:

Take down some notes over a period of a week before you start. Look at the direction of the wind and where the strongest and weakest areas are in your garden. You want to place them in spots where there are gentle breezes and not gale force winds. Chimes need to be gently nudged by the wind and not forced, otherwise you will just get a lot of noise. The aim is to create a musical concert with gentle voices calling on the wind

Aluminum, wood and glass chimes are by far the best to use in a garden. Use the wooden ones where the breeze tends to get strong, with the aluminum ones where the wind swirls around corners. Glass chimes can be placed in between flowers and bushes to great a fairy-like sound.

Try and play with height and depth. Place your chimes in a line, starting from the highest place in your garden (maybe a deck) and then place another chime lower (maybe on a tree) and then place a smaller one much lower (maybe in a flower bed) to create many different sounds at once. This will create a wind orchestra for you to sit back and enjoy.

If you are tired of a particular sound of a chime, don't pack it away. Let is sing some more but place something behind it or in front of it. Maybe a dream catcher or a garden sculpture. Let the wind bounce of of these objects to touch your chime maybe in a gentler way or stronger way.

Should you have traffic noise on your street, place bigger or bolder sounded chimes on the outer border, mixed with lots of tall plants and high grasses. Start where the traffic noise is most concentrated and place smaller daintier chimes nearer the house. This should soften or drain the noise coming from the street both day and night.

It's really wonderful to have wind Chimes swaying in the gentle breezes of your garden. Harvest the wind to enhance your life. Place a small chime in your main doorway, it will greet your visitors with song and set a harmonious tone in their lives as well.

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