On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:52:45 -0800,
(paghat) wrote:


Frogleg wrote:

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:46:12 -0800,
(paghat) wrote:

Wind chims in gardens are horrifying. They are noisy & annoying & disturb
the natural sounds a garden can engender with birds & crickets & rainfall
& rustling leaves & water features.

Different strokes. I don't happen to have or care for wind chimes at
my house, but next door neighbor has one with gentle bell-like tones.
It's quite pleasant to hear on a breezy day.

One not too loud & bongy chime is not the same as those loons who collect
them for all over their porch & on all sides of their houses.

So you don't require silence, but merely sound that suits *your*
tastes and in the concentration and volume you enjoy. Some like the
sound of children at play; others don't. Some would be delighted to
have a string quartet playing in the garden next door; others (it
seems) would leap over a fence to take a chainsaw to a cello.

As for multiple sets of windchimes, didja ever see 'Body Heat'
(Kathleen Turner, William Hurt)? The behavior, ahem, wasn't exemplary,
but the movie *wasn't* set in a trailer park. :-)

It is unfortunate that we can't all live with precisely the conditions
we prefer, and without any sort of intrusion from other people.
Communities, municipalities, and states enact ever more regulations to
declare what is and isn't acceptable. I understand there are many
places where you can't hang laundry on a back yard clothesline because
it's an "eyesore." Some areas restrict the colors which may be used
painting a house. Most non-rural areas have anti-noise regs based
(usually) on decibel level, but if you want your house and garden to
be entirely free of unwanted noise, insulate, put up a noise-baffling
fence, or move to the middle of 5 acres where no human presence will
intrude. Neighbors' outdoor parties have kept me awake, but I figure a
little celebration from time to time isn't lethal. I don't *know* what
I'd do if a low-decibel wind chime were driving me mad. Probably try
to ignore it first, and maybe speak to the neighbor, and/or try to
find a more musical/tolerable version to give them. It's *such* a
small thing.