I've done similar chimes, but the secret is to hang them individually with each their own wind catcher and clapper. Mine are WAY FAR APART and low tones just drift on the wind from several locations on my North Texas farm. Relax. Oxygen doesn't burn by itself!
Yes I totally agree with you ... I mean he actually KNEW to put some kind of a clapper in them and he DIDN'T . .... then he got rid of them , so I gave him a thumbs down ... Pointless video after the fact and he was really wasteful . Anybody else would have loved to have had them as they were . ... so I won't be back to this channel ; this was my first time here and I saw enough .
I would have totally taken them from you!! This is exactly what I’ve always been wanting, perhaps with a bit more refinement on the tones, like a third or a fifth, they would have been more peaceful. Make more and sell them! People would buy these. I definitely would, but they’d totally be out of my price range. 😢
@@ben_burnes well she probably would have gladly have paid for the shipping look this guy was really wasteful and he knew to make them sound right they needed a Clapper in them and he didn't even bother . I've never been to this channel before but I won't be back and I gave him a thumbs down this was just a pointless video
If anybody feels that way about tanks that are about 2 feet tall by 5 inches wide and youre in NorCal, get at me I have over a hundred and would love for them to be turned into something instead of scrapped
Jever think of maybe backing the truck closer to the cylinders? Chortled at every macho step you took. So, I do this with Scuba tanks, steel 72s and 30s. I cut them in half, sorta, and use my angle grinder and flap sander disk to take off the paint. Careful if galvanized. They still have deep macho tones and with a wood disc clapper they ring in the slightest breeze. I use a galv or brass turnbuckle through the neck hole as a hanger for the clapper and wind flag. Sorunds great and makes a good gift. Clear acrylic if you don,t want them to rust, but rust looks good, too. Thanks for the fun vid.
there are calculators online to get different frequencies based on length. you just punch in your tubes material, od, id, wall thickness, and it tells you what lengths make what frequency. i know thats more work than this video was worth, but it is entirely possible to "tune" tubes of metal to your liking. longer the pipe the deeper the sound. i did some rough estimates on the yellow tank, with the top cut off it would vibrate at over 1000 hz. typical bass guitar strings fundamental frequencies range from 30-80 hz although any note played on string instruments will have overtones, which will multiply the frequency for short amounts of time. to reach the sub 100hz range you would need to cut off the tops and bottoms of 3 tanks and weld them together for at least 150 inches of pipe
Then he'd have to make 5 of those long tubes, each tuned for a note in the Pentatonic scale, and hang them all up on a 4 foot diameter hood, with a 50 lb plate as a ringer. Sounds like fun in a storm. Or something.
Wow, far out, what an excellent sound from those cylinders. If I still owned my own home, I would definitely build a wind chime like this. It would bring back memories of my childhood when almost every church in the Buffalo, NY area would chime all day. Pretty cool.
Try looking up North Country Wind Bells. A little pricey, but I love the deep dark sound of mine. Made in Maine and sound like buoy and harbor bells come in single double and triple tones. They do have a huge gong bell if you have alot of money to drop
@@1ghostchick He wasted his time when he scraped them, and I would have coated them with wax and it would have muffled the sustain. Real bronze bells do not have that much sustain. Hard wood clapper made from round wood stock and a good wind sail...
Man, that yellow tank is basically a cannon! I was really surprised by the guage of the steel. (I'd honestly be tempted to try to make an actual cannon out of it, but that would probably end quite badly.)
Noooooo not the scrap yard 😱 I love the sound but I have about 15 wind chimes in my yard 😂 I'm having my son build these for me with some of his scrap metal and cylinders (he's a welder) 🥰😂 thanks for the great idea 🥰
Guys, I knew I had taken such tanks and made bowling ball launchers. They were on tripods, and they used black powder as a charge. When they fired them off, the finger holes whistled all the time they were in flight. It was quite a novelty. The state civilized the gun range we used, and the bowling ball mortars were banned.
I loaded 11 of these into my truck yesterday with less effort and potential for herniated discs. Step 1: back truck up to cylinders Step 2: lean cylinders against tailgate, lift bottom, slide in. 🎉
You filled the oxy tank with water to prevent explosion? Is that tool a Dremel? I ask because I've been wondering what to do with an old metal outdoor octagonal shaped clothes dryer. Chimes came to mind over the last few months and I love recycling. Thanks for the demo...I'm sad that you scrapped them.
problem was I wasn't sure what the tanks used to have in them, although the valves were off and the guy I got them from said the were Oxy tanks -I wasn't taking any chances
They should use CO2 cylinders and place them along the mountain tops of famous walk through treks. They could even etch a QR Code on them and coupled with your on the spot location you could sign into a virtual book as you progressed along your trek - I'm not into selfies but group photos might be fun to add with your blurb. Each time you hear the distant chimes you would know you were close to a marker at a summit (like a milestone along your trek) The 'Via Alpina' across the Alps from Italy to Monaco would be perfect.
It could be a work smarter not harder, or just me being lazy issue, but I woulda moved the truck closer to the cylinders. I would have also maybe just muffled them when I didn't want to hear them. but you learned us how to make something that will most likely drive us nuts too. Thanks for the tip great job
I've been saving extra oxy, argon ,scuba ,cylinders for the last couple of years all shaped and sized for an extreme wind chimes . Best I can figure it's going to weigh in a 600 lbs on the small scale to 1000 on the large scale.
I was accompanying a driver picking up a load of empty CO2 canisters in a concrete alleyway. Long story short, he didnt fasten them together on his truck lift, and they jostled as they came to stop at the deck. One after the other, they fell off the lift - probably seven or eight of them. Literally one of the loudest things I've ever heard in my life, especially being in an alley. Fortunately they werent full >_>
I love this I need one too I love the real deep tones I’ll have to look into this or something as big. I found some I like but won’t pay 700 $800 for it. I’ll make one. That’s for sharing.. ❤❤
Neighbor had some aluminum tubes lost one so i re did it for 6 chimes.. repainted it ..Looks nice I was gonna trade for it until I heard it chime...Annoying is putting it mildly.. Loooks great but get it away from me.. In a wind run..... It will raise the dead.
Ohhhhh yasssss!! Now this is exactly what I want be a part of! The yellow one was kinda high pitched, but so regal! To isolate the single tone would have been the answer!! Superb vid!
Was it possible to tune them, or did you take the chance on what the result was going to be? I'm considering using small gas bottles for chimes, considering welding gas bottles together to get length, these have a diameter of around 14 inches.
I’m starting out making one of bamboo . Then I have a 10’ steel 1” In dia I’ll make one from that . Then I have some 3” muffler pipe to make into one then I’ll go to 1 lb propane cylinders after that I don’t know what I’ll do
I was looking for an easy way of making a single clapper to get a low tone resonance. I am picking up an empty cylinder today. Looks like ai am of the same opinion as most, I was sad to see you didn’t try tweaking the project.
you'd probably get a deeper tone with a slot cut down the length. cheap mics don't do low end much justice. I'm guessing the tone is much fuller in person.
There is a man named Lee Hite. He has building windchimes down to a science. You may want to look him up for your next project. I would think if you had used a wooden or hard rubber clacker on a string with a sail, you may have produced a more pleasing sound.
should have got 3 or 4 more cylinders , cut the tops off(making hollow tubes with no ends), drilled holes through the sides with rope and a gigantic piece of wood hanging them all. it would look awesome
What about a windpowered whirlagig thing that slowly winds up a knocker, and then releases it to knock the bell once in a blue moon. That would be really neat. Or a solar cell powered thing that does the same; it would only be active in the day.
You invented the chimegong! Congratulations! Now, either hang them further apart, or hang on with a damper (like that hammer handle) strung inside. That will make them not ring all the time.
The type of metal, length and thickness affects the sounds, the best balance between the three is the task also the length and mobility of the cord will affect the speed of the ringing
Wind chimes/wind bells are a love/hate relationship. They can be too much of a good thing and when it’s windy at night and it wakes you up at 1:30am and you have to stuff a towel or something in them to shut them up... but more over I like them. Try looking for a buoy wind bell. Deep sound and needs more wind to activate they’re more “off” than “on”.
It probably would have sounded a lot better if they were longer so you could tune them to notes and add one more to make a nice chord that you like or something similar like that but oh well they were too short. I wonder if you could weld them together to make a longer one and then tune it from there. Then you could find a few more and do that. Thats quite a bigger project though and maybe not so feasible. It was cool at first!
All kinds of ideas going through my head. I hate the high-pitched traditional wind chime. Been looking everywhere for something deep, and I think you were close... I'm inspired to experiment. Cut the tubes. Rubber-coated steel ball inside. I'm telling ya man. You were close. That sound from the hammer handle was way better than anything I've heard
Yes, after many comments and suggestions -I think I need to try it again, but use a softer hanging weight -also cutting the other end off the tube so the sound comes out the top as well? TBD
Could have cut it shorter. Shorter would probably have been more pleasant sound any way. and used a piece of wood for the clapper to soften the sound adjusts a wing to size it up for wind gusts you prefer. . . . Would have made a great gift for some one.
I've done similar chimes, but the secret is to hang them individually with each their own wind catcher and clapper. Mine are WAY FAR APART and low tones just drift on the wind from several locations on my North Texas farm.
Relax. Oxygen doesn't burn by itself!
Yes I totally agree with you ... I mean he actually KNEW to put some kind of a clapper in them and he DIDN'T .
.... then he got rid of them , so I gave him a thumbs down ...
Pointless video after the fact and he was really wasteful .
Anybody else would have loved to have had them as they were .
... so I won't be back to this channel ; this was my first time here and I saw enough .
I'm in North Texas also , Denton County ... I'm wondering what part you are in ?
@@gardensofthegods
Farmersville
I would have totally taken them from you!! This is exactly what I’ve always been wanting, perhaps with a bit more refinement on the tones, like a third or a fifth, they would have been more peaceful. Make more and sell them! People would buy these. I definitely would, but they’d totally be out of my price range. 😢
I would imagine shipping something like this would be a real pain XD
@@ben_burnes well she probably would have gladly have paid for the shipping look this guy was really wasteful and he knew to make them sound right they needed a Clapper in them and he didn't even bother .
I've never been to this channel before but I won't be back and I gave him a thumbs down this was just a pointless video
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@@gardensofthegods wooden clappers would be the answer and I would have coated them with wax to soften the sustain.
If anybody feels that way about tanks that are about 2 feet tall by 5 inches wide and youre in NorCal, get at me I have over a hundred and would love for them to be turned into something instead of scrapped
Jever think of maybe backing the truck closer to the cylinders? Chortled at every macho step you took.
So, I do this with Scuba tanks, steel 72s and 30s. I cut them in half, sorta, and use my angle grinder and flap sander disk to take off the paint. Careful if galvanized. They still have deep macho tones and with a wood disc clapper they ring in the slightest breeze. I use a galv or brass turnbuckle through the neck hole as a hanger for the clapper and wind flag. Sorunds great and makes a good gift. Clear acrylic if you don,t want them to rust, but rust looks good, too. Thanks for the fun vid.
there are calculators online to get different frequencies based on length. you just punch in your tubes material, od, id, wall thickness, and it tells you what lengths make what frequency. i know thats more work than this video was worth, but it is entirely possible to "tune" tubes of metal to your liking.
longer the pipe the deeper the sound.
i did some rough estimates on the yellow tank, with the top cut off it would vibrate at over 1000 hz. typical bass guitar strings fundamental frequencies range from 30-80 hz although any note played on string instruments will have overtones, which will multiply the frequency for short amounts of time. to reach the sub 100hz range you would need to cut off the tops and bottoms of 3 tanks and weld them together for at least 150 inches of pipe
that's totally what I needed.....
Then he'd have to make 5 of those long tubes, each tuned for a note in the Pentatonic scale, and hang them all up on a 4 foot diameter hood, with a 50 lb plate as a ringer. Sounds like fun in a storm. Or something.
@@oddballstonythis would be solid youtube content...no one else is doing it
Man do you know what you could have done with 5 of those with a striker in the middle
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Would’ve caused Las Vegas to separate from Nevada.
Yes a soft wood striker. I also would have waxed them all to cut down on the over kill of sustain. They have too much long ringing sustain.
I'm actually looking for ideas if you have a few... I have smaller tanks than these, but I have about 100 of them.
‘Death metal level chimes’??? You mean Sunday church bells right?
Hell Yeah!
That's what tubular bells supposed to sound like
Real church bells have a prettier sound and do not have that much sustain. The long ringing sustain is annoying and creepy.
For whom the bell tolls 🤘🤘🤘
Wow, far out, what an excellent sound from those cylinders. If I still owned my own home, I would definitely build a wind chime like this. It would bring back memories of my childhood when almost every church in the Buffalo, NY area would chime all day. Pretty cool.
Nooooooo, they are perfect! I can’t find any with this beautiful deep tone!
My search continues as well.
I started making tree bells out of freon cans. Just started yesterday. Maybe I will make a video and learn off of comments 🤔
Try looking up North Country Wind Bells. A little pricey, but I love the deep dark sound of mine. Made in Maine and sound like buoy and harbor bells come in single double and triple tones. They do have a huge gong bell if you have alot of money to drop
@@Chris-fk7xr Thank you! I’ll check that out!
@@1ghostchick He wasted his time when he scraped them, and I would have coated them with wax and it would have muffled the sustain. Real bronze bells do not have that much sustain. Hard wood clapper made from round wood stock and a good wind sail...
This was very funny at the end. Enjoyed this video. You really handled those darn chimes. Thanks.
This is a sweet video! 😂 kinda sounded like bells ringing to me. Would be a great sound to hear on Christmas Day!
1:16 the best way to deal with any woman
Lol -can't hear you 🤣
Beautiful.
Thanks for an honest video and I’m still going to try this. I wish you were closer I would buy yours.
Jesus, the pitch on that yellow one made my eardrums itch!
Man, that yellow tank is basically a cannon! I was really surprised by the guage of the steel.
(I'd honestly be tempted to try to make an actual cannon out of it, but that would probably end quite badly.)
Go big. Love it...
My new favorite youtube guy. Loved this video!
Dude! That’s awesome!
I’ve envisioned commissioning a huge set of chimes that I can hit with Thor-like hammers as part of a sound healing concert 😀
Noooooo not the scrap yard 😱 I love the sound but I have about 15 wind chimes in my yard 😂 I'm having my son build these for me with some of his scrap metal and cylinders (he's a welder) 🥰😂 thanks for the great idea 🥰
that is super cool! Sad you discarded them!
I like your thinking
Guys, I knew I had taken such tanks and made bowling ball launchers. They were on tripods, and they used black powder as a charge. When they fired them off, the finger holes whistled all the time they were in flight. It was quite a novelty. The state civilized the gun range we used, and the bowling ball mortars were banned.
What if you’d left the bottom on and were able to fill it to different levels would the water help MUTE IT?
that's the kinda info I needed, might have worked.... next time :)
It's gotta stop. Great video! I like the chimes but really laughed at you not moving the truck closer to the work.
I loaded 11 of these into my truck yesterday with less effort and potential for herniated discs.
Step 1: back truck up to cylinders
Step 2: lean cylinders against tailgate, lift bottom, slide in. 🎉
Love, love love it!
You filled the oxy tank with water to prevent explosion? Is that tool a Dremel? I ask because I've been wondering what to do with an old metal outdoor octagonal shaped clothes dryer. Chimes came to mind over the last few months and I love recycling. Thanks for the demo...I'm sad that you scrapped them.
problem was I wasn't sure what the tanks used to have in them, although the valves were off and the guy I got them from said the were Oxy tanks -I wasn't taking any chances
and the tool I used was a angle grinder with a 5" cut off wheel
I've always thought it would be cool to build a mountain top kinetic sculpture wind chime that literally has bells like church bells
some sort of automation to play various chimes
Great idea
They should use CO2 cylinders and place them along the mountain tops of famous walk through treks. They could even etch a QR Code on them and coupled with your on the spot location you could sign into a virtual book as you progressed along your trek - I'm not into selfies but group photos might be fun to add with your blurb.
Each time you hear the distant chimes you would know you were close to a marker at a summit (like a milestone along your trek)
The 'Via Alpina' across the Alps from Italy to Monaco would be perfect.
Good idea. Detest noisy irradic chime instrument noises 🙉
It could be a work smarter not harder, or just me being lazy issue, but I woulda moved the truck closer to the cylinders.
I would have also maybe just muffled them when I didn't want to hear them. but you learned us how to make something that will most likely drive us nuts too. Thanks for the tip great job
After watching this I am enlisting my son into metal fabrication school
Love that theme music at the very beginning. Actually, those big chimes are really good! Like church bells!
I've been saving extra oxy, argon ,scuba ,cylinders for the last couple of years all shaped and sized for an extreme wind chimes . Best I can figure it's going to weigh in a 600 lbs on the small scale to 1000 on the large scale.
The neighborhood will love you -Lol
I'm your 1,000th like.
Nice! and thanks!
Make canons out of them
Now that is the best idea yet!
@@oddballstony I'd like to see that lol
I was accompanying a driver picking up a load of empty CO2 canisters in a concrete alleyway. Long story short, he didnt fasten them together on his truck lift, and they jostled as they came to stop at the deck. One after the other, they fell off the lift - probably seven or eight of them. Literally one of the loudest things I've ever heard in my life, especially being in an alley. Fortunately they werent full >_>
wowza!
Thanks been looking for something like this
The chimes are in love with each other making that heavy metal music
I love this I need one too I love the real deep tones I’ll have to look into this or something as big. I found some I like but won’t pay 700 $800 for it. I’ll make one. That’s for sharing.. ❤❤
I love the tone!
Dude! You're definitely channeling Red Green. He'd definitely be proud of you!
The only thing that comes to mind is.... This is one of those "Hold My Beer" moments.
Neighbor had some aluminum tubes lost one so i re did it for 6 chimes.. repainted it ..Looks nice I was gonna trade for it until I heard it chime...Annoying is putting it mildly.. Loooks great but get it away from me.. In a wind run..... It will raise the dead.
My guy, you have to make them more different in size, so they have two different notes, so not only it’s less annoying but sounds prettier
I’ve never seen a perfectly spherical beard. Amazing 🧔
that long tube just reflects the harmonics continuously. Pretty cool.
Wedding Church bells kinda vibes 😂😂😂😂
Very cool. Nice industrial sound like working in a pipe yard.
What song is that while you were making the hangers?
Its called "Hollow Bells" you can find it in the Audio library in the YT studio. th-cam.com/channels/dUFOWuiZxD9RYnYSq1Xm0Q.html
I thought we were going to see them go through a shredder making a bunch of chiming noise on the way through.
I like that idea! lol
Cut the top portion too. Why are you keeping it ? Use the sail and soft striker it will be nice sound.
I like the sound of them
Ohhhhh yasssss!! Now this is exactly what I want be a part of! The yellow one was kinda high pitched, but so regal! To isolate the single tone would have been the answer!!
Superb vid!
Haha 😂
Those are not Chimes...they are Cannons now
Yes!
My dad got one just like these from the neighbors junk pile and its sounds so loud and pretty
Could feel that through my phone. Nice vibrations
Those would make great Chow Bells! DINNERS READY! CLANG CLANG CLANG!
love it
I loved the sound they made. You could of sold them. I would of bought them from you. I also would of painted them a awesome color. So sad.....😪😪😪
What a dumb thing for him to do
The reason tubes are used is so the air can escape through the top. It creates a more pleasant sound and shortens the ring echo.
that's the info I was looking for, next set I will cut the tops off as well. Thanks!
I look forward to seeing that
Yep. Sounds like a steel bell. Still cool though!
You could have made a wind chime with a soft striker in an optimum place to get mellower sounds than with the two cylinders banging together.
Hard wood round piece of wood with a wind sail.....what a waste. Evidently, he did not know what he was doing...
Was it possible to tune them, or did you take the chance on what the result was going to be?
I'm considering using small gas bottles for chimes, considering welding gas bottles together to get length, these have a diameter of around 14 inches.
I had no idea how to tune them, but I few people have left comments on how to tune them below
I’m starting out making one of bamboo . Then I have a 10’ steel 1”
In dia I’ll make one from that . Then I have some 3” muffler pipe to make into one then I’ll go to 1 lb propane cylinders after that I don’t know what I’ll do
Lmk how it turns out!
Right on!! We need more cool neighbors like this. Where are you located? I wanna be your neighbor 😂
I like the major third from the yellow tank
I was looking for an easy way of making a single clapper to get a low tone resonance. I am picking up an empty cylinder today. Looks like ai am of the same opinion as most, I was sad to see you didn’t try tweaking the project.
The trick is to build them with a wind catch that only catches very strong winds and so they won't be ringing all the time
Lol ... that first hammer slap made me laugh
Those chimes are so metal!....scrap metal. I would love to have those
You should try this same thing but with the huge tanks from under a gas station. Also, don't tune them either. Should be fine.
you'd probably get a deeper tone with a slot cut down the length. cheap mics don't do low end much justice. I'm guessing the tone is much fuller in person.
Great cideo
There is a man named Lee Hite. He has building windchimes down to a science. You may want to look him up for your next project. I would think if you had used a wooden or hard rubber clacker on a string with a sail, you may have produced a more pleasing sound.
That's the kind of information I need, Thanks!
Effen awesome idea brother !!!!!!!
Nice great too go too the extreme
should have got 3 or 4 more cylinders , cut the tops off(making hollow tubes with no ends), drilled holes through the sides with rope and a gigantic piece of wood hanging them all. it would look awesome
I have 2 more..... might revisit them again
Sounds pretty good!
That is very cool
What about a windpowered whirlagig thing that slowly winds up a knocker, and then releases it to knock the bell once in a blue moon. That would be really neat. Or a solar cell powered thing that does the same; it would only be active in the day.
Now that's a good idea -even one that goes off on the hour like an old clock
20 lb propane tanks make a gnarly sound. Larger diameter lower pitch
That's good information.... I'm on the hunt!
Absolutely The Coolest Chimes Ever! Very Awesome 😎🤘
You invented the chimegong! Congratulations!
Now, either hang them further apart, or hang on with a damper (like that hammer handle) strung inside. That will make them not ring all the time.
that's the kind of tip I needed -I love a good Gong I think the damper would have worked perfect
The type of metal, length and thickness affects the sounds, the best balance between the three is the task also the length and mobility of the cord will affect the speed of the ringing
I would have cut a ring of steel and welded it to the bottom giving it a thicker lip and it would sound more like a real bell
Looks like one of my projects. Maximum effort then abandonment.
I wonder if aluminum would ring ? Ive gotvsome 6"dia alum pipe. Cool vid.
I was at a house where a guy made incredible chimes. I'll never forget, he said aluminum makes the best chimes. He had one made of aluminum ballusters
Wind chimes/wind bells are a love/hate relationship. They can be too much of a good thing and when it’s windy at night and it wakes you up at 1:30am and you have to stuff a towel or something in them to shut them up... but more over I like them. Try looking for a buoy wind bell. Deep sound and needs more wind to activate they’re more “off” than “on”.
hmmm, I wonder if a towel etc might be enough to dull the never ending ring down a bit
I want 10 to go, it'll drive my neighbours nuts lol
It probably would have sounded a lot better if they were longer so you could tune them to notes and add one more to make a nice chord that you like or something similar like that but oh well they were too short. I wonder if you could weld them together to make a longer one and then tune it from there. Then you could find a few more and do that. Thats quite a bigger project though and maybe not so feasible. It was cool at first!
Do you make these for people to purchase? Love it!
All kinds of ideas going through my head. I hate the high-pitched traditional wind chime. Been looking everywhere for something deep, and I think you were close... I'm inspired to experiment. Cut the tubes. Rubber-coated steel ball inside. I'm telling ya man. You were close. That sound from the hammer handle was way better than anything I've heard
Yes, after many comments and suggestions -I think I need to try it again, but use a softer hanging weight -also cutting the other end off the tube so the sound comes out the top as well? TBD
@@oddballstony keep us posted...
They would make good hot water heaters for a wood stove
So much better with the bottom off and the cushioned ringer!
Great sound, would not keep me awake.
Aww, wood against metal is really what you wanted. What a shame, they were beautiful.
Maybe a little bit of rubber padding in between them to muffled and deaden it a little bit like the rubber end of the hammer when you hit them ......?
Nice
This is awesome haha
Could have cut it shorter. Shorter would probably have been more pleasant sound any way. and used a piece of wood for the clapper to soften the sound adjusts a wing to size it up for wind gusts you prefer. . . . Would have made a great gift for some one.
Do you restring chimes. I haven’t been able to find anyone