I had one I loved by the bedroom window, but on windy nights it drove me nuts so I would use a hair tie around the tubes to hold them tight together.

I moved it over to moms and hung it in a less windy area...a Towhee made her nest in the plant right next to it so I guess it does not bother all birds.

My pet peeve about wind chimes is the neighbors who occasionally come to their second homes, but hang wind chimes for my listening pleasure.

I was going to suggest changing how the clapper is hung to something with a hook so you can disconnect it at will.

I have a wind chime and I really enjoy it. But we are far enough away from neighbors that it shouldn't bother them, and it's off our deck so away from the bedrooms so it's not a problem at night.

I've always thought that if I lived on the beach, I'd want an aeolian harp...but I would imagine that sound would drive neighbors batty and I'd become very unpopular very quickly...but I still think they sound so cool.

"There is a certain appeal to a baseball hanging there." Hahaha!

Repetitive sounds bother me, particularly when all else is silent. Wind chimes, clocks, buzzing lights...even the bells ringing in my head.

Wind chimes drive me nuts. I like to sleep with a window open and a previous neighbour had a wind chime...so frustrating to have to listen to unwanted sound. I think it's inconsiderate to have one with neighbours in listening proximity.

Another one who doesn't like wind chimes. It has been very windy the last few days and I'm glad none of our neighboes have one hanging outside.

The wind harp would drive me right over that cliff edge!

I love my windchime! It has nice sounds(IMO)and i'm sure the neighbors behind me must hear it, but i've never had complaints. If I were to find it 'missing' I would know right where to go. ;)

It's funny about certain sounds. We have several clocks in the house...antique wind up pendulum types that have chimes, some quite loud. We simply don't hear them....or I should say we seldom do. I think a lot of the time when I'm outside, I don't hear the wind chimes either...or at least not directly...rather they are in the background of my unconscious and only hear them when I tune in, or at least make the space for me to tune in.

Pattycakes (and others), perhaps those who may hear and dislike your chimes are polite and considerate and have simply not mentioned them to you. I never mentioned the racket to my neighbors, I hated and endured it. Perhaps you could ask them how they feel?

I'm a considerate neighbor and that's why I got out of bed and took the chimes down. I also sleep with the window open and respect others' right to a peaceful night's sleep. I have chatted with neighbors (the next morning) if their dog or party disturbed me beyond a reasonable hour. I also take a batch of cookies over when someone new moves into my immediate air space, introduce myself, welcome them to the neighborhood, and tell them how nice and safe and QUIET it is. I ask them to please let me know if anything I do is ever a bother. As if. :) I'm a most excellent neighbor if I do say so myself.

Anyway, the chimes. Three others didn't have to be taken down because they weren't really making any noise. I live in suburbia and when the wind blows it's not like through the trees when you live in a more wooded, meadow-y spot. I can hear traffic noise where I live, weed eaters, leaf blowers, loud car radios, folks on their speaker phone in the backyard so I get to hear both parts of the conversation. An occasional melodious gong doesn't seem unreasonable to me.

I have considered hanging my naughty wind chime in the garage, sort of putting it on probation. Despite me being a rather excellent neighbor, I have a propensity for leaving my garage door open in the daytime when I'm home.

You go out there and shut that garage door right now, woman! Honestly, that bothers me way more than noisy windchimes (I'm actually a big fan of pretty, tinkling chimes), and not because it's objectionable for me to see into someone's garage, but because that's how so many thefts occur and entrance into the home is gained. I'm just worried about your safety!

Why not install it on a pulley and cable so that it's easily lowered when it 'misbehaves'?

Auntjen, I appreciate your concern. :) In another neighborhood I probably wouldn't do this. I do keep the door between the garage and house locked at all times. I live on a circle, so there's no through traffic. The only people we see, aside from other neighbors, are folks from the senior complex nearby out for a walk. We are all nosy neighbors, keeping tabs on comings and goings. I know, I know, I shouldn't be lulled into a false sense of security, but I have deliberately assessed the risk. I love working in the garage. It means I'm doing stuff with my hands and feeling creative.

Fraker, I like that idea! Got any ideas/links for me?

Well, ok. I'm honestly not trying to treat you like a child - just don't want anything bad happening to you! Sounds like you live in a very secure area, and those nosy neighbors are a good thing! Glad you are all looking out for one another. That's so important.

In my old neighborhood, we were cautioned often to keep our garage doors closed. People would be out working in the yard, go around the corner for just a few minutes, then come back to their open garage to find items missing. It was just astounding how quickly and stealthily the thieves worked!

No link. When it comes to home projects I think of myself as 'management' and leave the execution and labor to my husband. I thinking, though, that a small, simple pulley and some rope (in the appropriate diameter/gauge to mate with the pulley) from Home Depot would do the trick. Hang the pulley from the hook you now use to hang the chime. Attach the rope to the chime allowing enough rope to span from eye level, up through the pulley and back down to the ground. Hoist the chime up and secure the extra coiled rope on a hook or cleat on the wall. Or under a big rock...

Auntjen <3

We're talking small lots with no escape route except the way you came in. No running through yards or over fences. Anyway, I can't live in fear. Three cheers for nosy neighbors!!! My life is an open book.

My garage is my Guy-ville. When my husband was alive, I never lingered there. Now it's a space I love, esp. my workbench.

Thinking you might simply use a rope over a branch or similar, that could be secured to a cleat somewhere for raising/lowering?

But I confess I'm partial to the idea of hanging it in a more sheltered spot where the ringing might be "on demand".

Fraker, I'm gonna give this some thought. Something new to learn!! My dad was a bit of a Rube Goldberg and could generally find a solution for anything. I would like it to be a somewhat attractive-looking pulley, because I think the wind chime is really nice looking too.

That has a disc clapper, right? Try putting a rubber band around it, the wide kind that comes on broccoli. I use them for opening jars so they should stay on the clapper if it's thick enough.

carolb, I believe you are right about relocating the chime to a more sheltered area. This one is/was near the corner of my house and I suspect there's a little more wind action there.

Mayflowers, yes, disc clapper. Good idea. The trick is to subdue it, not totally silence it. The sock it's currently wearing has taken care of that.

I can't imagine you'd need a pulley more than about 2-3" long, perhaps even smaller. A wind chime can't weigh much. Get thee to the hardware store. Ask a few questions, explain your predicament. You can do this! Dad would be proud.

You put a sock on it??!! But a rubber band is so much more attractive. If you plan carefully, you can find blue, purple, green, and red rubber bands and change them seasonally.

hehe

I didn't want to chance it so I specifically asked my neighbors on each side of me, we have none behind, if my wind chimes could be heard and if they bother them. Both said that they could not hear them so no worries. My neighbor I am very good friends with said she would enjoy it if she could hear it, she has several of them on her own property but I can't hear them. We have so many really big trees and bushes it blocks a lot of sounds. I prefer to ask just to make sure it's not bothersome, it's what I would want done for me, and it's easy.

I have some in my atrium, they don't get much wind in there but occasionally we do and I can enjoy them from the living room.

Fraker: Get thee to the hardware store.

Music to my ears. I would much rather muck around in a hardware store than look for the perfect accessory for my coffee table. Which happens to be magazines anyway.

I don't have a single scale in my house so I held the chimes in one hand and a 5-lb. free weight in the other. I think it's a little heavier than 5 lbs. The pulley at the top wouldn't bother me since the hook is in the eave support (joist? strut?) partially hidden by the eave trim. I'm thinking about the actual cord/rope that would be used. I would like strong, thin and black.

MF, yep, a sock. A perfect little Hue made the ultimate sacrifice. It's cute, but not something I'd want to futz with in the middle of the night when the wind kicks up. I will try a wide rubber band.

This WC has been in that particular spot for a couple of months. It takes more than a mild breeze to make it sound, and when it does, it's often just one sonorous note. Very nice.

I'll ask my favorite neighbors about it. They also have WCs so it's not like they hate them outright. They'll be honest and very nice about it. They will laugh when I tell them about knocking it down like a piñata and if they heard it clanging.

I once had a neighbor with wind chimes. It drove me nuts as I can't stand them. I went over one day when they were gone and took the noisemaker down and laid it on their picnic table. Fortunately we moved shortly after that so I didn't go any further with it after they put it back up.

Oh gibby. :0

Today it's very windy again. My remaining wind chimes are singing a bit, but nothing remarkable. Since all our bedrooms are in the back of our houses, I may move the tempered wind chime out front.

I understand that some of you don't like them, at all. I hate most background music in offices, esp. when it's lite rock. I hate it.

I gave the wind chime another chance and hung it at the front of my house, which is more protected from the prevailing breezes. It seemed loud from within my house (with the door open), but when I walked to the sidewalk, it was barely audible, so not intruding into the neighbors' ear space.

It lasted two days. It drove ME crazy. Too loud. It really makes a beautiful sound, even playing snatches of Amazing Grace, but it was too much. Too deep, or something. It needs to be re-homed on a larger parcel. It needs to be appreciated from a distance.

Errant, what kind of clapper does it have? I found that many wooden wind catchers refuse to move much in the breeze. I now make my own star-shaped wind catchers out of flashing, which is easy to cut. That can make all the difference.

I love wind chimes. Any noise that distracts me from this darn tinnitus is a blessed relief!

Linelle, I'm not sure what size yours is but we have what seems like a medium sized wind chime and it makes just a light tinkling sound when there is wind. We have it hanging in the most windy spot of the yard but it takes a decent breeze to make it move. We tried many in the store and it seemed most of the larger ones were too loud. Wind chimes all make different sounds. Some are heavier some are very light. We sleep with windows open in good weather and I enjoy the listening to the sound as I fall asleep. Maybe you just need to find another.

Debrak, this one has 1-3/16" diameter tubes and is 38" long and weighs 5 lbs. (as per the website). The tubes really resonate. I think its quality, solid build is part of the problem. It's loud and the notes are more sustained.

Besides this one coming down in the wind last November, there was another one outside my bedroom acting up. I couldn't reach it, so I cut off its wind catcher and forgot about it. Yesterday I fashioned a new wind catcher and hung it in front of my house. It's perfect. When it chimes, it's just a whisper, not Big Ben.

okay, I just purchased and hung up a super nice set of Corinthian Bell Chimes as well as a smaller Carson Wind chime...wish to NOT disturb the neighbors at night...so as I thought of solutions I suddenly developed the following: Paper/wax cover bowl or even a cheap plastic bowl (like SOLO) that a scissors can cut...flip upside down, put mark in center and puncture top with pen or nail to create a hole for the clapper string, draw a line from the hole to the edge of the bowl--nice and straight. Cut On the line only to the hole. NOW you can slide the string through the cut to center the bowl OVER the clapper...NO NOISE!!!! I did this with BOTH chimes trimming around the edge of the bowl for fit...if this continues to work I may also adjust using a Solo cup the same way. I am SOOOOO happy!!! https://www.facebook.com/jean.wald.7/videos/1924705377591922/

I have decided that if I need MORE noise, I will plug in a fan and let er go!

I was surprised to get a notification that there was a comment on this thread. I’d forgotten all about it. I ended up giving the chimes to a friend who lives on 200 acres and can handle a bigger sound than I.

Maybe that post was spam???

Hahaha. That’ll teach me to not even read the darn thing. Or maybe that was a better plan. ;-)

I got a laugh out of rereading this. I commented that the neighbors were renters and they and their wind chime would be gone soon enough. The joke is on me. They bought the house and the freaking wind chime is still there, along with a yappy litlle dog. Now child number three is on the way. Oh yay. To be honest, the kids are cute and the husband is a nice guy. It’s the wife and the wind chimes I can’t stand.

I'll take wind chimes over a yappy dog any day.

Lucky me, I've got both right over the fence.

Dedtired, I can relate! I’ve got 2 yappy dogs and a gargantuan 6’ wind chime over the fence. I’ve spent so many sleepless nights listening to that wind chime and been woken up countless mornings by the yappy dogs.

Ccrunner, you have my sympathy. I think I will get a bazooka and blast the damn wind chime.

I need to give it to my neighbor. He has tomatoes next to his house and he hung aluminum pie plates so they would clank and spin to scare the birds away from his tomatoes.

Nothing like that on a windy night. It's about 20 feet from my bedroom and drives me crazy all day.

Do people think noise stops at the property line?

My neighbors had wind chimes. I bought the house and took down the chimes.

Very simple solution guys.

Just go to an office store and buy couple of those round color magnetic pieces that people use on magnetic boards and place them side by side on an even way on the Shime sail.

The chime sail will get a little heavy and wont go crazy all the time.

But Manny, what if the sail is made of wood?

I do find that the trick to increasing/decreasing the sound is in the sail size and material and the length it hangs.

I miss that beautiful black chime that played snippets of Amazing Grace, but it needed a more spacious venue than I could provide.

I read you can try putting a cotton ball in each tube to soften the sound.