SINGING BOWLS & SOUND INSTRUMENTS

Crafting quality singing bowls

The alloy differs, influenced by local traditions and religion various metals were used. Singing bowls crafted in Buddhist dominated regions contain the 12 metals important in Buddhism. There are 7 planet metals: gold, silver, quicksilver, copper, iron, tin, and lead, as well as 5 more metals: zinc, meteoric iron, bismuth, galena, and pyrite. Every alloy contains a small piece of an old bowl with all information embodied.

The liquid alloy is then cast into a thick disk. Still hot and glowing 4 craftsmen start driving the disc to a bowl with heavy hammers for a while then it goes back into the fire. These guys will need approximately 32 hours to finish driving a high quality singing bowl of about one kilogram weight.

	The cast gets prepared with 7 to 12 pure metals.
Recipies for the alloys are based on traditional knowlegde and highly important.
	Once the alloy is ready it is cast into a thick disc, a bit more heavy than the bowl will be.
Singing bowls go back into the fire 20 to 90 times up to their size and have to be forged while red-hot glowing.
	4 to 6 craftsmen are driving the singing bowl in a perfect rhytm.
Some hours later it looks more and more like a singing bowl forged nealing.
	The master's special techniques grant the details of shape and sound.
The singing bowl is nealed and quenched several times to increase sound quality.
	The bowl gets abraded by hand until its surface is shiny.