Comments on: Sound Off #1: Shiny Golden Awesome (aka How To Pick A Singing Bowl)

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:55:43 +0000

I like your method. Maybe I can find a singing bowl. Though given no other help, my end method probably would’ve gone more like, “find the one that speaks to me” – in looks/aesethics. When in doubt, that seems to work pretty well (for computers anyway).
elizabeth´s last blog ..the great pumpkin

By: Fabeku

Fabeku — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:33:33 +0000

@Katie - You make a great point. Singing bowls can look pretty intimidating. The idea of making a hunk of metal sing like a choir of angels can be scary. I'm totally glad you dove in though and started checking it out. And I'm glad the video helped too. It doesn't take long to get how fabulous these bowls are, does it? And the whole-body-vibrating bit? I totally get it. @Ken - Word on the not-all-that-woo-woo thing. Same here. And yeah, you'll never find any woo-woo prerequisites here. Thankfully they're totally unnecessary. Woohoo!

By: Ken Robert

Ken Robert — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:32:30 +0000

Given the nature of my own blog, it might surprise people to find out I”m not all that woo woo, which is why I love your blog. No woo woo prerequisites to partake in the joy of sound.
Ken Robert´s last blog ..Collect Your Thoughts – Things That Go Bump In Your Head

By: Katie Schroth

Katie Schroth — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:17:54 +0000

Boy, I saw a lot of myself in this blog. For years I would think about or maybe even look at a singing bowl in a store. I wanted one, didn’t know how to pick one, didn’t think I could sing it, didn’t know you could gong it! Once in awhile I would get brave and ask a question and usually people weren’t too helpful. They basically didn’t know much either.

Finally after reading your tweets, I decided to look more – sort of look in the privacy of my house on-line. I played all the lovely little sound bites and starting saying oh maybe this one. This one sounds nasty – maybe I need help and that’s the one. Then one day I am listening to all these wonderful bowls – they all sounded great and I was even more confused, but kept going. Then I listened to another sound bite from a bowl. WOW!!! My whole body started vibrating. It was incredible. Needless to say the bowl and I are now great friends. (Thanks for the wonderful video blog on how to sing a bowl).

By: Fabeku

Fabeku — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:02:04 +0000

@Joely - I totally know what you mean about the I'm-not-sure-it's-my-thing thing. I felt the same way for a long time. I got one bowl just to play with. And I pretty much fell head over heels. I've got 40+ bowls at this point. And yay you've got tingshas! They rock. And I'll totally do something about them. I'm thinking a video may be more helpful. What do you think? @Josiane - Right on about the chakras not being tuned to the Western-ey musical thing too. I absolutely agree. There's so much more happening than that. (Woohoo!) Listening is totally the way to go. There's no substitute for our own first hand experience with the sound. @Christine - It really is an instantaneous Yep, that's the one!, isn't it? It's like the sound rocks its way through every bit of who we are, and ends up as a big resounding YES! (Somehow this totally made me think of the Plinko game from the Price Is Right.) And you're so right about the overtones. The metal bowls have all kinds of overtone-ey goodness. That's a huge part of their mojo. And you'd never be able to match that up on a chakra chart.

By: Christine Martell

Christine Martell — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:08:00 +0000

This is so much my experience. For each bowl I have, the minute I heard it, I knew it was right. They just resonate. It is a multi-level knowingness that just emerges.The sound is more complex with the overtones and such so that match the chakra pitch thing falls apart really fast.
Christine Martell´s last blog ..Actually Painting Every Day

By: Josiane

Josiane — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:13:06 +0000

“And even if the note was the only thing that mattered, does that mean that Himalayan singing bowls are perfectly tuned to Western musical scales?” — The “omg, that’s so true!” reaction I had to that question was immediately followed by this thought: the chakras have probably not been tuned to Western musical scales either… You’re totally right: better to keep listening and see which bowl turns us into a little ooh-ey goo-ey puddle of awesome!
Josiane´s last blog ..Noticing – the dragonfly edition

By: Joely Black

Joely Black — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:08:09 +0000

I’ve considered getting a bowl, I’m not sure it’s my thing yet, if you know what I mean.

There is something I’d really like you to write about and that’s tingsha.

I bought mine at a Buddhist temple in China from a collection of antiques, and they have dragons encircling the tops with sacred symbols (akin to the Om symbol) on the underside.

I’d love for your thoughts on how to use them properly to get the greatest benefit.

Thank you!
Joely Black´s last blog ..A 4.4.1: Feeling like Alice