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Facts around Singing Bowls

What is a Singing Bowl?

Many people have already 'heard something about' singing bowls or even their sound, maybe held one in their own hands, but only a few know more about this soundful messenger from far away cultures. Singing bowls are found in the entire Himalaya and in some other countries like China, Japan and Thailand. They are used in meditations, their targeted complex sound is up to accelerate inner clearance.

Weight of the bowls differs from about 150 grams up to several kilograms, diameter size varies from about 5 - 35 cm. Extremely rare bowls may be a lot bigger and very heavy. Traditionally manufactured singing-bowls are artficially forged metal bowls.

Up to the local tradition and the major religious influence, different recipies for the alloying have been in use. Singing bowls from buddistic countries contain 12 important metals derived from buddhistic cosmology. There are seven metals according to planets: gold, silver, quicksilver, copper, iron, lead and tin, and five more of importance, zinc, meteor iron, bismuth, galena and pyrites. Another very important ingredient is a piece of an old singing-bowl, containing informations of ancient knowledge. This alloy is cast into a thick disk and hammered by four craftsmen, raising the disk to a bowl during it is in a hot condition. It takes the four craftsmen approximately 32 hours to produce a high quality singing-bowl of about one kilogram.

 

Universal Klangschale

Where do the SInging Bowls come from?

Peter Hess is specialized in collecting and manufactoring ancient-style therapy singing bowls in Nepal, Tibet, and India, importing for decades. This is where we get our singing bowls, offered by the institute in different qualities and origin to meet most of possible requirements.

Singing bowls for therapeutical use are manufactured in Nepal, according to the old traditions, the old bowls are collected on trips to Asia. We invite all interested people, who miss the most important here - SOUND itself - to visit our institute and get a sound impression themselves. Make your appointment here or by phone! T/F: 01-6020163

 

Bengali Klangschale

How can I tell a quality singing bowl?

During the last years with increasing therapy offers customers became aware of big differences throughout a variety of singing bowls of different origins. Especially for the use in therapies one wants to rely on 100% quality bowls for last but not least the success of therapies might be up to sound and oscillation features of singing bowls, gongs and other sound instruments.

Every single singing bowl we offer was manually and electronically checked and selected. Singing bowls with optimal sound and oscillation features get branded with "Peter Hess products® seal of approval". It is already a popular certificate to grant our customers the quality standard for best singing bowls all over Europe.

Peter Hess products® singing bowls are either old relics collected in the Himalaja, or new ones, manufactured in Nepal, deriving directly from Peter Hess' revived production according to the old traditions. Alloy contains 12 important metals derived from buddhistic cosmology.

To match the special demands of sound massage therapy some more types of singing bowls were developped: : ASSAM, ZEN singing bowls in three fix sizes with bright and high sound, and BENGALI singing bowls made of another alloy. These types are crafted of seven metals and underlie the same strict quality rules as the other singing bowls certified with Peter Hess products®. *)

Increasing demand on the European market increases import of lots of bowls made of scrap metal in India, Nepal und Pakistan and sold pretty cheap. Everbody can easily tell the difference. Bowls of this kind are not available in our Singing Bowl Shop.

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