When the weather gets too windy or the temperatures turn too cold, your wind chime strings could easily tangle, snap, freeze, or break. And if you’ve got an antique set of wind chimes, the passage of time alone can be enough to cause some serious stress on the strings.
Either way, frayed or damaged strings mean that your wind chimes could come crashing to the ground. If that happens, the chimes themselves could break upon contact, depending on the material that they were made from.