# Chime

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

These include:

- [Chime (bell instrument)](/source/Chime_(bell_instrument)), an array of large bells, typically housed in a tower and played from a keyboard
- [Cymbalum](/source/Cymbalum) or cymbala, word from which chimes derives, used for Greek and medieval instruments
- Chimes, the sounds produced by a [striking clock](/source/Striking_clock) to announce the hours
- [Bar chimes](/source/Bar_chimes) (also known as "mark tree"), a series of many small chimes of decreasing length, arranged horizontally
- [Bianzhong](/source/Bianzhong), chime bell sets from China, oldest sets are about 2,000 and 3,600 years old
- [Carillon](/source/Carillon), larger set of tower-mounted bells, played musically
- [Chime bars](/source/Chime_bar), individual instruments similar to glockenspiel bars but with resonators
- [Gong chime](/source/Gong_chime), wracks of pot-gongs, traditional to Southeast Asia
- [Lithophone](/source/Lithophone) or stone chimes, musical instruments made of rock
- [Tubular bells](/source/Tubular_bells), orchestral instrument, modern chimes in the form of metal tubes
- [Wind chime](/source/Wind_chime) or Aeolian chime, suspended bells sounded when blown together by the wind
- [Handchimes](/source/Handchime), an instrument that is rung by hand, similar to handbells.

**Chime** or **chimes** may also refer to:

## Places

- [Chimes, Arkansas](/source/Chimes,_Arkansas), a community in the United States

## People

- [Chime (musician)](/source/Chime_(musician)) (born 1994), English dubstep musician
- [Terry Chimes](/source/Terry_Chimes) (born 1956), English musician
- [Chime Rinpoche](/source/Chime_Rinpoche) (born 1941), Tibetan Buddhist Lama and Tulku
- [Chime Tulku](/source/Chime_Tulku) (born 1991), Buddhist Tulku

## Acronyms

- [Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment](/source/Canadian_Hydrogen_Intensity_Mapping_Experiment), a radio telescope
- [College of Healthcare Information Management Executives](/source/College_of_Healthcare_Information_Management_Executives), the professional organization for chief information officers and other senior healthcare IT leaders
- [CHIME syndrome](/source/CHIME_syndrome), a rare combination of congenital birth defects

## Arts, entertainment, and media

### Albums

- [*Chime* (Yuki Saito album)](/source/Chime_(Yuki_Saito_album)), 1986
- [*Chime* (Dessa album)](/source/Chime_(Dessa_album)), 2018
- *[Chimes EP](/source/Chimes_EP)*, 2014 EP by Hudson Mohawke

### Songs

- ["Chime" (Orbital song)](/source/Chime_(Orbital_song)), a 1989 single release by Orbital
- ["Chimes" (song)](/source/Chimes_(song)), a 2014 single release by Hudson Mohawke
- ["Chime" (Ai Otsuka song)](/source/Chime_(Ai_Otsuka_song)), a 2019 single release by Ai Otsuka

### Other arts, entertainment, and media

- [*Chime* (film)](/source/Chime_(film)), a 2024 Japanese film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- [*Chime* (novel)](/source/Chime_(novel)), a 2011 young adult novel by Franny Billingsley
- [*Chime* (video game)](/source/Chime_(video_game)), released in 2010
- [*Chimes* (Gavrilin)](/source/Chimes_(Gavrilin)), a Russian-language choral work by Valery Gavrilin that premiered in 1984
- Chimes, a magical force that paradoxically destroys magic in the novel *[Soul of the Fire](/source/Soul_of_the_Fire)* by Terry Goodkind

## Other uses

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

## See also

- [Chime Communications (disambiguation)](/source/Chime_Communications_(disambiguation))
- [Chimera (disambiguation)](/source/Chimera_(disambiguation))
- [Chyme](/source/Chyme), human body digestive fluid
- [The Chimes (disambiguation)](/source/The_Chimes_(disambiguation))

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