I carefully listened to many of the chime sets in our local Fillmore pharmacy. These chimes have the wider 1 and 1/4” tube which provides a richer tone, to my ears. I searched for 2 years to find a suitable chime set for my wife’s 60 birthday. She didn’t mind waiting and I was thankful to find such a beautiful-looking, amazing-sounding, and reasonably priced chime made in the USA. I had seen others costing over $200 that had nowhere near the encouraging tone of these chimes. Some chimes can always sound like the same song because of the scale chosen. These chimes have a more open scale that gives many, many different “cheerful” combinations! Our chime has easily handled the winter weather of western New York, being installed at the edge of our porch. I will occasionally hearing it sounding at night as I’m headed to bed and will for a moment think that I need to go turn off the chimes. Visitors comment on the aural and physical beauty of these chimes. I tell them where to find them! These chimes have been a great blessing to us!