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Chime

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Chimes are a percussion instrument struck with hammers.

Chime or chimes may also refer to:

Places

People

Acronyms

Arts, entertainment, and media

Musical instrument or tone

  • Chime (bell instrument), an array of large bells, typically housed in a tower and played from a keyboard
  • Chimes, the sounds produced by a striking clock to announce the hours
  • Bar chimes (also known as "mark tree"), a series of many small chimes of decreasing length, arranged horizontally
  • Chime bars, individual instruments similar to glockenspiel bars but with resonators
  • Macintosh startup chime, the sound a Macintosh computer makes on startup
  • Warning chime, a sound used in machinery or computers to alert users of a dangerous condition, error, completion of a process, etc.
  • Wind chime or Aeolian chime, suspended bells sounded when blown together by the wind
  • Handchimes, an instrument that is rung by hand, similar to handbells.

Music

Albums

Songs

Other music

  • Chimes (Gavrilin), a Russian-language choral work by Valery Gavrilin that premiered in 1984

Other arts, entertainment, and media

Other uses

  • Chime (company), an American financial technology company
  • Chime, the rim of a barrel, one at each end
  • MDL Chime, a plugin used by web browsers to display the 3D structure of molecules

See also