Chime

Chimes are a percussion instrument, sets of bells in varying pitches.

These include:

• Chime (bell instrument), an array of large bells, typically housed in a tower and played from a keyboard
• Cymbalum or cymbala, word from which chimes derives, used for Greek and medieval instruments
• 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
• Bianzhong, chime bell sets from China, oldest sets are about 2,000 and 3,600 years old
• Carillon, larger set of tower-mounted bells, played musically
• Chime bars, individual instruments similar to glockenspiel bars but with resonators
• Gong chime, wracks of pot-gongs, traditional to Southeast Asia
• Lithophone or stone chimes, musical instruments made of rock
• Tubular bells, orchestral instrument, modern chimes in the form of metal tubes
• 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.

Chime or chimes may also refer to:

Places

• Chimes, Arkansas, a community in the United States

People

• Terry Chimes (born 1956), English musician
• Chime Rinpoche (born 1941), Tibetan Buddhist Lama and Tulku
• Chime Tulku (born 1991), Buddhist Tulku

Acronyms

• Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment, a radio telescope
• College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, the professional organization for chief information officers and other senior healthcare IT leaders
• CHIME syndrome, a rare combination of congenital birth defects

Arts, entertainment, and media

Albums

• Chime (Yuki Saito album), 1986
• Chime (Dessa album), 2018
• Chimes EP, 2014 EP by Hudson Mohawke

Songs

• "Chime" (Orbital song), a 1989 single release by Orbital
• "Chimes" (song), a 2014 single release by Hudson Mohawke
• "Chime" (Ai Otsuka song), a 2019 single release by Ai Otsuka

Other music

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

Other arts, entertainment, and media

• Chime (novel), a 2011 young adult novel by Franny Billingsley
• Chime (video game), released in 2010
• Chimes, a magical force that paradoxically destroys magic in the novel Soul of the Fire by Terry Goodkind

Other uses

• Chime (company), an American financial technology company
• Chime, the rim of a barrel, one at each end
• Macintosh startup chime, the sound a Macintosh computer makes on startup
• MDL Chime, a plugin used by web browsers to display the 3D structure of molecules
• Warning chime, a sound used in machinery or computers to alert users of a dangerous condition, error, completion of a process, etc.

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Chime
• All pages with titles containing Chime
• Chime Communications (disambiguation)
• Chimera (disambiguation)
• Chyme, human body digestive fluid
• The Chimes (disambiguation)