Fetish: any object, activity, etc, to which one is excessively or irrationally devoted
Is it a fetish, fixation or obsession? Or maybe it's just a weird fascination or infatuation. I think all of us have something like that in our lives. Actually I'm fascinated and drawn to more than one thing, but one of my longest lived infatuations has been with wind chimes.
I adore wind chimes and have ever since I was a little girl. And I certainly have enough of them to lend testimony to this statement. It's not as bad as "Body Heat" (the 1981 movie starring William Hurt and Kathleen Turner) wind chime obsessed (well maybe it is). But, I'm picky about them. They have to be melodious. Most of the ones I own are "tuned." My most recent acquisition (a gift from my mother) is tuned to a typical Japanese-type scale characteristic of the music from that culture.
I have a very wide and comfortable front porch which I designed for our home and my favorite wind chimes live there... summer and winter. They sound symphonic in a storm or on a blustery day. And on a sleepy, hot summer afternoon, they play the perfect lullaby. We also have a large back deck with a pergola and a collection of chimes reside there as well.
Of course I have a few decorative chimes, too. I really don't know what kind of music they play. I haven't given them much of a chance. They are too pretty to survive the elements so they grace various points within my home. I even have a set of them in my bathroom which I hit with my hairdryer from time to time.
Despite the fact I'm running out of room, I know that won't keep me from collecting more. I'd like to own a set of really large wind chimes that play very low tones. Right now I have a lot of soprano and alto voices and could use some tenor and bass.
