Answer:
What hangs others yet can unintentionally hang itself?
Alive without breath, As cold as death, Clad in mail never clinking, Never thirsty, ever drinking
Two in a whole and four in a pair. And six in a trio you see. And eight's a quartet but what you must get. Is the name that fits just one of me?
It's in your hand though you can not feel it. Only you and time can reveal it.
Walk on the living, they don't even mumble. Walk on the dead, they mutter and grumble.
I can only be played on a windy day