What can you do with wind chimes except hang them up somewhere?
Yet there are a very few musicians who are incorporating them into their very acts – live performances, actually.
That’s right – those things, made of stone, shell, wood, glass, or metal, used in actual music, as musical instruments in themselves.
What else could you do with wind chimes except hang them up somewhere?
Yet there are a very few musicians who are incorporating them into their very acts – live performances, really.
That’s right – those things, created from stone, shell, wood, glass, or metal, used in actual music, as musical equipment in themselves.
Seems impossible, given their extremely limited acoustic skills, for them to be much of a contributor, melodically or rhythmically, but some ingenious musicians have managed to work them into their performances.
Typically, they are used in modern music and used as percussion instruments.
The use of wind chimes in this way has been quite varied, with David Sitek of the American rock band TV on the Radio hanging one at the end of his guitar to Oliver Messiaen using glass, wood, and seashell chimes in his opera about Saint Francis of Assisi.
Other composers using a wind chime in their works contain Toshiro Mayuzumi, Giles Swayne, and Koji Kondo, who scores videogame soundtracks, which includes those for Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda!
Speaking of things Japanese, there is even a Pokemon based on wind chimes, called – what else? – Chimecho!
In fact, it’s popularly referred to as “the wind chime Pokemon” due to its light frame and power to produce a ringing, chiming cry.
This piercing sound can be amplified into ultrasonic shockwaves that knock back its foes.
Altogether, chimecho can make seven different tones to speak with other chimecho.
But to return to musical instruments: no discussion on the subject would be complete without mentioning that a percussion instrument does exist which is often mistaken for a wind chime but is really a mark tree.
The resemblance is pretty obvious, however, such that other names for it consist of chime tree or bar chimes!
