Wind Chimes

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-07-21 rating:
LOVE THIS!!!
I love this CD. I have wind chimes and love hearing them. Having this CD is a great background when I'm doing stuff around the house. The people downstairs must think I have a million wind chimes.

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review by: date: 2008-04-05 rating:
DISAPPOINTED
I purchased this CD because I like the sound of Wind chimes. I prefer the sound of delicate, tonal wind chimes. I find them soothing and great to listen to while reading or relaxing. When I received this CD, I put it into my CD player and anxiously listened. The wind chimes began nice enough, but when I listened further, after a few minutes, I heard other percussion sounds as if someone were in a recording studio making them. I personally found them annoying and distracting, not conducive to reading. THIS WAS NOT WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR AT ALL. If I am able, I will sell this CD at a "half-price" store or something. I am disappointed with it.

A side-note: A few months ago, I ordered another Wind Chimes CD on Ebay from a seller in England. The labeling on the CD was different....I think it was the Natural Sounds Collection WIND CHIMES, but it seems to me that the wind chimes on that CD and other assorted percussion sounds were the same as on the CD I am currently reviewing; so essentially, it now appears that I have two CDs of the same unwanted wind chime sounds. A problem here is that I previewed this (the current) wind chimes CD a little (I believe I was able to listen to the first few seconds of it, and it sounded fine -- you don't hear in the preview those other parts I just described); so I ordered it on that basis.

Perhaps some helpful information: I do have two CDs entitled, "Wind Chimes I" and "Wind Chimes II." I believe that I got them from Amazon. Wind Chimes I has the sounds of metal tubular and solid chimes on it. (I like this one; it is a keeper -- it is more delicate sounding). Wind Chimes II has the sounds of bamboo wind chimes on it, it's nice too, if you're more inclined to that sort of sound.

I hope that this review is helpful to others.

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review by: date: 2007-12-24 rating:
Wind chimes or percussion performance?
I've been trying to come up with a way to enjoy the sound of wind chimes year-round (hard to do in Northern winters), so I thought I'd try this CD.

It started out fine, with the sound of a nice, tubular wind chime set at the beginning, but something was wrong: where was the gentle sound of the wind (as important as the chimes themselves, in my opinion)? At about 1:50 into the CD I learned where when the most horrible computer-generated wind chime sound began and continued for the next minute or so. After that, it became clear that the chimes were being struck by the hand of a musician or group of musicians in a studio somewhere, and that I wasn't going to get the random, lyrical sound that I had hoped for.

So why give it two stars instead of one (or zero)? First, I didn't pay a lot for this CD, which reduces my disappointment somewhat. Second, listening to the CD as the percussive performance piece it really is, it isn't unpleasant to listen to compared to some of the CDs I've heard in the "atmospheric" genre. From this perspective, I probably would have given it three stars were it not for the abrupt and disturbing drop-outs at several points in the recording.

So if you're looking for that wonderful aeolian sound most expect from wind chimes, I suggest looking elsewhere. However, if you are looking for something different to listen to and need filler for another order, this isn't the worst CD you could purchase.

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review by: date: 2007-10-17 rating:
Wind Chime Lovers Only
There is truth in everyone's review written so far, including those who do not think highly of it. If you are considering buying this CD, DO READ every comment.

If you are not a lover of wind chimes, you certainly will not appreciate "Relax with Wind Chimes". (This is the first chimes CD I have ever owned, so I have nothing to compare it to, which is why I'm only giving it 3 stars.)

No, this is not a CD to fall asleep by, but is excellent as background audio while working at your desk.


review by: date: 2007-01-18 rating:
OK for the price.
For the most part, this isn't bad. Sometimes the chimes just don't sound natural to me, as though they are being tapped or swatted at rather than blowing in a breeze, and the lower tones sound just weird, like some dissonant banging on an electric piano. At times the CD sounds like a recording of a broken music box. There are long stretches where it sounds great, but then they are disrupted when fake-sounding lower tones invade. For that reason I did not find this CD all that useful for meditation or relaxation.

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