About Antique Handmade Singing Bowl :
Singing Bowls also known as himalayan bowls or tibetan singing bowls are widely used since from the ancinet times in Nepal and Tibet mostly by the buddhist monks for meditation, religious ceremonial music, traditional ritual offerings, feng shui tools, as traditional musical instruments, healing, sound therapy , sound massage and chakra balancing. Singing bowls are generally found in two types in which one is Hand Hammered or Beaten and another is Casting, each variety produces varieties of sound and resonance, the singing bowl sound also depends on manufactured type like of the metal composition, the higher the metal composition, higher the quality found. Singing bowls are found made of brass, bronze, three metal, five metal , seven metal and nine metal but generally brass singing bowl, bronze singing bowls and 7 metal singing bowls are as common in use Hand hammered are much more popular than hand casting one as it produces quality sound due to its roughness as it is handmade. There are various types of singing bowls like flat type, deep one , surface deep & high, kopere, gulpa and many more with various hand carvings, colored, paintings and designs. Singing Bowls are found with various decoration with ritual quote, tibetan buddhist chant Om Mane Peme Hum, Mandala carvings,8 eight auspiciuos good luck symbols, Dragons, Buddha face and eye, Boddhishattwa Leafs, nepali and tibetan buddhist ritual quotes and as well as modern designs and craftings. Singing Bowls produces a wonderful singing sound with mind soothing & space clearing resonance and tone when they are tapped, hit, struck or rubbed by a singing bowls wooden striker, mallet or dowel. Now a days singing bowls are in extensive use in therapeutic purpose for feng shui, healing , treatment and sound therapy.