3 Surprising Applications of a Wind Chime
Wind chimes are popular decorations throughout the world. In the spring and summer, wind chimes are heard ringing across suburban lawns and city streets.
Elegant and expensive or festive and cheap, wind chimes are readily available in home stores and gift shops.
Wind chimes serve other purposes beyond being decorative noisemakers and have had various uses throughout history.
Let’s take a look!
1. Nature weather forecast and prevent crop damage
The first of the surprising applications of a wind chime is weather monitoring. Before modern weather forecasting and technologies, wind chimes were used to detect early, minor changes in wind speeds that signaled oncoming storms.
Wind chimes were used on ships and in farmers’ fields to determine wind direction.
Farmers use wind chimes to frighten away birds and other pests. Farmers in Bali place bamboo wind chimes throughout rice fields to scare pests and bring the farmer good fortune and healthy crops.
Hanging wind chimes near a bird feeder is counter-productive since few birds will brave ringing chimes to get a snack.
2. A talisman that make you calm
The second of the surprising applications of a wind chime is a good luck piece. Wind chimes were and still are, used to scare away evil spirits and hung in doorways and windows to dissuade bad luck from entering a home.
Wind chimes are used not just for their sound effects, but also for purifying and enhancing energy within a certain area.
They provide a calming effect, creating melodious sounds, generating meditative feelings, and engaging senses other than just hearing — listening to wind chimes reduces stress and promotes relaxation.
These sounds are considered to have a healing effect on the body and mind, encouraging people to listen, creating upbeat feelings, and are said to unblock emotional stress and bring feelings of inner peace and more of a sense of balance in one’s life.
Wind chimes have a healing effect on the mind and body. The resonance and vibration of the sound are thought to release stress and emotional blockages in the body and calm the mind, thereby expanding conscious awareness and connection with the spirit.
Many people consider wind chimes to be good luck. The positive sounds of wind chimes are thought to promote relaxation and reduce anger and tension.
3. Instruments wind chime
The last of the surprising applications of a wind chime is the sound of itself.
With the modern methods of precision tuning and materials, wind chimes have also taken on a decorative purpose.
Today wind chimes are constructed from materials such as wood, metal, glass, and ceramic.
Wind chime manufacturers have found ways to develop precision-tuned musical chimes that ring in various pitches.
Cultural chimes akin to Japanese, Hawaiian, and Balinese can also be found. Nowadays some stores use wind chimes to inform them when a customer enters.
No matter what the reason is for using a wind chime, even if you are not superstitious, the wind chime can still always be hung in a home as a decorative piece and for the melodious sound.
The sound of a wind chime can evoke a sense of peace and tranquility, and is often used to create a relaxing ambiance in outdoor spaces.
Some wind chime enthusiasts play them in a rhythmic manner, or use them to create complex musical arrangements. There are even wind chime orchestras that perform together, creating beautiful, multi-layered musical pieces.
Some wind chimes have a soft, gentle sound, while others produce a more resonant, musical tone.
Besides, wind chimes can also be used as an alarm system. For example, a wind chime that is hung in a doorway can alert people inside a home to the presence of visitors or intruders.