Wood: Bamboo is a common material for wooden wind chimes, which produce a deeper and more mellow tone than metal, for an overall earthier vibe. We like bamboo in particular because it is usually ...

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“Continuing to make his chimes is a way of keeping his music alive,” she says. A selection of wind chime tubes ready for assembly at the Music of the Spheres studio, in East Austin.

I rubber-band my wind chimes on windy nights out of consideration for my neighbors’ peace and sanity as well as my own. I recommend it. Your Fan for 30 Years in Mission Viejo, Calif.

But it is the chimes – aluminum tubes 5 to 10 feet long that weigh nearly 150 pounds – that are intended to be the most evocative. The voices onboard Flight 93 are seared in Americans' memory.