How to drive a musician crazy........

[keltic63]

last Christmas, I gave my partner a set of these windchimes:

http://www.thepenny.com/Images/Chimes03/Weatherland555_xlg.jpg


They are tuned to the key of D, and include the pitches D, E, F#, G, & A.

they play melodies, randomly, or at least I hear random melodies. :( I expect to hear the rest of the song, but it never comes. Sometimes, it's the right melody and the wrong rhythm. sometimes, the chord doesn't resolve.

yes, I know it's just my mind trying to make order out of chaos, to impose some formality onto their random pitches and rhythms. It doesn't negate the fact that I go crazy trying to do that!

One of the songs it likes to "play" Sing, Sweet Nightingale from the Disney movie, Cinderella. F# A F# E D (quarter, quarter, eighth, eighth, quarter) I've also heard This is my Father's World D G D E F# G and any other number of songs based on that penta-chord! But then, I never hear all of the song, and I never get just the right rhythm, and I rarely get resolution!

[Jennifer5]

Songs like your driving yourself insane... I don't think it's the windchimes at all :lol:

[u-dog]

Songs like your driving yourself insane... I don't think it's the windchimes at all :lol:


It was a decidedly short trip regardless of who was driving !! :lol:

[andrewlittle]

Step one complete - he's talking about the chimes as if they have personalities and likes/wants.

Step two coming next - he will begin to suspect that the chimes are conspiring against him - he will watch them from the corner of his eyes as he tries to catch them deliberately misbehaving.

Step three (oh, I wish I could be there to see that one) - he stands there verbally chiding the chimes as he tries to get them to keep a rhythm and perform in five part harmony.

Step four (at least according to the "Big Ass Chimes from Hell" handbook) - the chimes will start playing mind games with him until he finally cracks. This will be accomplished by continually playing one and a half bars of Amazing Grace with a blues beat. They will titter amongst themselves as he slowly goes into the fetal position and becomes incontinent. (I'll be selling tickets to step four)

That'll teach him to be gone and leave us all alone.

[BrentRichards]

OK, before we sign papers to put Steve away ... I've also seen windchimes that are designed to match the notes of a familiar song or hymn ... I almost bought a set of "Amazing Grace" windchimes once ... they choose the right notes, put them in the right order, and you'll OFTEN hear something approaching the song intended.

So he's not nuts. At least, not because of this. Me neither. Though I know that's a tough sell.

[BrentRichards]

(at least according to the "Big Ass Chimes from Hell" handbook)

Is this Big-Ass Chimes or Big Ass-Chimes? Because if it's the latter, I'm gonna need an explanation.

[keltic63]

OK, before we sign papers to put Steve away ... I've also seen windchimes that are designed to match the notes of a familiar song or hymn ... I almost bought a set of "Amazing Grace" windchimes once ... they choose the right notes, put them in the right order, and you'll OFTEN hear something approaching the song intended.

So he's not nuts. At least, not because of this. Me neither. Though I know that's a tough sell.

Amazing Grace Chimes would be easier because it is a tune that is based on a pentatonic scale. it includes the 5 pitches D, E, G, A, & B. (and the octave D, which is still the same pitch, so doesn't negate the 5-tones....)

I find myself wishing that our chimes were pentatonic. There would always be consonance!

[andrewlittle]

Because your chimes aren't pentatonic, you run the risk of becoming catatonic - is that right? Well, at least apoplectic.

The worst part of this is that I had no idea whatsoever that anything I said in my previous post made any sense at all. Those damn chimes are affecting us all.

[paul]

I think we all need to go out and buy more wind chimes for Keltic...he can have a whole orchestra of piecemeal tunes.

[keltic63]

I think we all need to go out and buy more wind chimes for Keltic...he can have a whole orchestra of piecemeal tunes.


gee, thanks eversomuch for your help. I'm underwhelmed by your generosity.

[paul]

:lol:

okay, not really.

[tdogg]

Nothing will drive one insane quite so quickly as chimes. Big-ass, big ass-, or not so big. I love them on occasion, but stay away as on more occasions I don't love them so much.

I had no idea one could buy wind chimes set to play certain tunes. Interesting...

[Jennifer5]

Shh... Tdogg we don't want him to actually know this... we have to make him believe that it's all in his head and that he's actually just going insane... :lol:

[tdogg]

...ok Jen, it will be our little secret. Let's not say anything...hehehehehe :D

[Jennifer5]

...ok Jen, it will be our little secret. Let's not say anything...hehehehehe :D

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