On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:41:31 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
"Reggie is Here wrote:

I actually do enjoy wind chimes that have a balanced tone, but halyards
inside a mast, banging and clanging in discord does not have a harmonic
sound to them. I would rather put my head in a bucket and beat it with
a hammer, which explains a lot about me.

When I was a kid back in the fifties, one of the neighbors had
something called Rebel, dating from the forties, and one of the first
fiberglass boats. The rope halyard pinged on the outside of the
aluminum mast. Nobody ever said word about it. I guess it didn't
bother anyone. How does the wind get inside a mast? It doesn't, so
what made the wires move?

Casady