Chimes are a percussion instrument, sets of bells in varying pitches. These include: *

Chime (bell instrument) :''See also Cymbalum'' A chime () or set of chimes is a carillon-like instrument, i.e. a pitched percussion instrument consisting of 22 or fewer bells. Chimes are primarily played with a musical keyboard, keyboard, but can also be played with an ...

, 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 A striking clock is a clock that sounds the hours audibly on a bell, gong, or other audible device. In 12-hour striking, used most commonly in striking clocks today, the clock strikes once at 1:00 am, twice at 2:00 am, continuing in this way up t ...

to announce the hours *

Bar chimes A mark tree (also known as a nail tree, chime tree, or bar chimes) is a percussion instrument used primarily for musical color. It consists of many small chimes—typically cylinders of solid aluminum or brass tubing about 3/8" in diameter—of ...

(also known as "mark tree"), a series of many small chimes of decreasing length, arranged horizontally *

Bianzhong ''Bianzhong'' () () is an ancient China, ancient Chinese List of traditional Chinese musical instruments, musical instrument consisting of a set of bronze bells, played melodically. China is the earliest country to manufacture and use musical chi ...

, chime bell sets from China, oldest sets are about 2,000 and 3,600 years old *

Carillon A carillon ( , ) is a pitched percussion instrument that is played with a musical keyboard, keyboard and consists of at least 23 bells. The bells are Bellfounding, cast in Bell metal, bronze, hung in fixed suspension, and Musical tuning, tu ...

, larger set of tower-mounted bells, played musically *

Chime bar A chime bar or resonator bell is a percussion instrument consisting of a tuned metal bar similar to a glockenspiel bar, with each bar mounted on its own wooden resonator. Chime bars are played with percussion mallet, mallets again similar to a g ...

s, individual instruments similar to glockenspiel bars but with resonators *

Gong chime A gong chime is a generic term for a set of small, high-pitched bossed pot gongs. The gongs are ordinarily placed in order of pitch, with the boss upward on cords held in a low wooden frame. The frames can be rectangular or circular (the latter ar ...

, wracks of pot-gongs, traditional to Southeast Asia *

Lithophone A lithophone is a musical instrument consisting of a rock or pieces of rock which are struck to produce musical notes. Notes may be sounded in combination (producing harmony) or in succession (melody). It is an idiophone comparable to instrume ...

or stone chimes, musical instruments made of rock *

Tubular bells Tubular bells (also known as chimes) are musical instruments in the Percussion instrument, percussion family. Their sound resembles that of church bells, carillons, or a bell tower; the original tubular bells were made to duplicate the soun ...

, orchestral instrument, modern chimes in the form of metal tubes *

Wind chime Wind chimes are a type of percussion instrument constructed from suspended tubes, rods, bells, or other objects that are often made of metal or wood. The tubes or rods are suspended along with some type of weight or surface which the tubes or ro ...

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 The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) is an interferometric radio telescope at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory in British Columbia, Canada which consists of four antennas consisting of 100 x 20 metre cylindri ...

, 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) Chime Financial, Inc. is an American financial technology company, based in San Francisco, California, that provides fee-free mobile banking services through two national banks, Stride Bank and The Bancorp Bank. The company offers early access ...

, an American financial technology company * Chime, the rim of a

barrel A barrel or cask is a hollow cylindrical container with a bulging center, longer than it is wide. They are traditionally made of wooden stave (wood), staves and bound by wooden or metal hoops. The word vat is often used for large containers ...

, one at each end *

Macintosh startup The Macintosh startup sequence for Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh (or Mac) computers includes hardware tests and diagnostics which can trigger the startup chimes and/or other instances of success or failure of the startup routines. The startup seq ...

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.