Pipe Windchimes

[LEP7cv]

Hi guys, got the idea to make a windchime with pipes, you guys think it would work?
(first I'll need to find and sacrifice some pipes...)

 

[kcghost]

Don't think it is a real good idea, but you'll never know unless you try.

 

[Epip Oc'Cabot]

Seems possible, although I am not sure if the wooden chime sound would be particularly melodic unless you had an array of very different pipes.

At some level it seems a bit “sad” to relegate pipes to this task, but…. perhaps if you only string them through the stem, shank, and out the bowl….thereby negating damaging them…. if the project turns out to be a bust, they could then be unstrung and used as smoking pipes again.

 

[LEP7cv]

Seems possible, although I am not sure if the wooden chime sound would be particularly melodic unless you had an array of very different pipes.

At some level it seems a bit “sad” to relegate pipes to this task, but…. perhaps if you only string them through the stem, shank, and out the bowl….thereby negating damaging them…. if the project turns out to be a bust, they could then be unstrung and used as smoking pipes again.

true, a fishing line trough the hole... maybe one day I'll do it, if I get around 7 "trash" pipes :D

 

[jpmcwjr]

Wouldn't work for me. The dull knocking together sound of pipes would be annoying, not melodic.

 

[Sigmund]

The wood is too dense. Maybe junk pipes with some bells in the bowl?

 

[LEP7cv]

I guess this is one of those rare situations that if this were a crack pipe smoking forum, it would work better...?

 

[bullet08]

So when wind blows, it goes "getting off my lawn!"

 

[AroEnglish]

I think it could work but it might not sound particularly pleasant. The wooden chimes I've seen have been pretty large which I think created a deeper sound.

 

[Pooh-Bah]

Might could get something decent-sounding if you went for a Japanese style windchime.
Like, a little glass bell with a cob suspended in it or something.

Or maybe some Falcons, stick meerschaum bowls on 'em and see if the meer survives a windy day, might get some interesting coloration from them just being out in the elements constantly.

 

[FLDRD]

No I don't think so. I've heard wooden chimes and they must be significantly tubular & thin walled and still they make a dull / hollow thud. Pipes would be an even duller "thud".

 

[Chasing Embers]

 

[Humblepipe]

How about making a rain chain out of pipes? Nah, just kidding....

 

[BlueMaxx]

Perfect use for Falcons and old Kirstins.

 

[orlandofurioso]

Shame on you; blasphemy !

 

[LEP7cv]

thank you all for the do's and don'ts

I'll move on

 

[cosmicfolklore]

If you hang corncob pipes up outside your house, it wont take long till you have a huge cardboard hobo encampment in your yard. Jus sayin

 

[AroEnglish]

How about making a rain chain out of pipes? Nah, just kidding....

@mikethompson would do it with some cobs for sure!

 

[verporchting]

Clay pipes.

 

[olkofri]

Cobs!