Chime

Chime or chimes may refer to: music. It is used as a apparatus for striking a bell to produce a musical sound commonly used in front of houses by which visitors announce their presence. It is also used as a name.

Musical instrument or tone

• Chime (bell instrument), an array of large bells, typically housed in a tower and played from a keyboard
  • An instrument of this kind with 23 bells or more is known as a carillon
• Tubular bell, or chimes, a percussion instrument struck with hammers
• Wind chime or Aeolian chime, suspended bells sounded when blown together by the wind
• Bar chimes also known as a Mark tree, a series of many small chimes of decreasing length, arranged horizontally
• Chime bars, individual instruments similar to glockenspiel bars but with resonators
• Warning chime, a sound used in machinery or computers to alert users of a dangerous condition
• Macintosh startup chime, the sound a Macintosh computer makes on startup

People

• Chime Rinpoche (born 1941), Tibetan Buddhist Lama and Tulku
• Chime Tulku (born 1991), Buddhist Tulku

Popular culture

• The Chimes, an 1844 short novel by Charles Dickens
• Chime (video game), released in 2010
• Chime (novel), a 2011 young adult novel by Franny Billingsley
• Chimes, a magical force that paradoxically destroys magic in the novel Soul of the Fire by Terry Goodkind

Music

• The Georgetown Chimes, Georgetown University's oldest all-male a cappella group
• Chime (album), a 1986 album by Yuki Saito
• Chimes EP, 2014 EP by Hudson Mohawke

Songs

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

Other

• Chimes, Arkansas, a community in the United States
• 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

Acronym

• Zunich–Kaye syndrome, also known as CHIME syndrome, a rare combination of congenital birth defects
• College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, the professional organization for chief information officers and other senior healthcare IT leaders

See also

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