Chimes

After hearing big, beautiful wind chimes at a local garden shop shortly after we moved here, I wanted a set of my own.  It’s been at the back of my mind for years.   Every spring I consider it, especially when I visit that garden shop!  However, wind chimes seem like a bit of a frivolous expense, so I talked myself out of it each year.

This year, though, I decided to splurge.  I ordered the Corinthian Bell wind chimes.  They arrived last week, and I haven’t regretted purchasing them one bit.  My wind chimes are tuned to the D scale, and they sound melodious and musical.  There is no clanking to these wind chimes.  The sound reverberates and mixes in random waves of goodness.

Every breeze brings a new tune, and some of them are just delightful, so delightful that I want to run inside and write them down on a piece of manuscript paper.  Sometimes I just lie on the warm boards of the deck with a pillow under my head and my eyes closed, enjoying warmth from the sun.  As the chimes ding, I actually see intervals, notes and sometimes even chords appearing on snippets of music staffs (in treble clef).  That’s the kind of music geek I am.

I also hum dissonances with my electric toothbrush, but that’s another post.