What Are the Benefits of Bamboo Wind Chimes?
Add subtle music to your garden with a set of bamboo wind chimes. The benefit of hanging bamboo wind chimes includes a distinctive sound that is not as invasive as other types of wind chimes. Additional benefits of bamboo wind chimes include the availability of the material as well as the flexibility and simplicity of working with the hollow wood. Does this Spark an idea?
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Eco-Friendly Material
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Bamboo is one of the most eco-friendly building materials available today. As the fastest-growing plant on earth, bamboo replenishes quickly. Using eco-friendly building materials for even small projects, such as wind chimes, is a benefit to the environment. Bamboo is also readily available in planting zones across the country. In addition to the environmental benefit, making wind chimes with bamboo is cost effective --- often free --- if you have stalks growing nearby. Cut down the stalks, and let them dry out completely before creating the wind chimes.
Sound
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One desirable benefit of bamboo wind chimes is the noise reduction factor as compared to wind chimes made from metal, ceramic or glass. Bamboo wind chimes clack softly, rather than clang or ring. Music from bamboo wind chimes is more like the branches of a tree connecting than the more prominent musical notes that often reverberate from metal wind chimes. Bamboo chimes fit in with a Zen garden setting designed with a soothing atmosphere for quiet reflection.
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Flexibility
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Bamboo offers a flexible range of design options for wind chime construction. The natural material stands alone beautifully but also pairs equally well with beads, crystals and bells. To create a more decorative set of wind chimes, paint bamboo stalks with acrylics, exterior latex paint or exterior spray paint for pops of color. Create beaded bamboo stalks for your wind chimes by gluing flat-backed marbles periodically around the stalks using waterproof construction glue.
Ease of Construction
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Beginning woodworkers and craft artists can easily cut bamboo stalks to size to construct a set of wind chimes. A hacksaw, a circular saw or a rotary craft tool with a saw blade can slice a bamboo stalk. Drilling holes through the bamboo stalks to create hangers for the wind chimes is also not a problem. Any power drill with a 1/8-inch drill bit attached can make holes through the bamboo wood. Don't let the benefit of simplified construction fool you; bamboo stalks are both sturdy and durable.
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Above mentioned benefits are really good because bamboo wind chimes having reduced noise rather than wind chimes made from metal.
