Tibetan Singing Bowls Meditation Music Part 1

http://www.frankperry.co.uk. First half of a short introductory improvisation upon antique Tibetan Singing Bowls prior to evening workshop at the Spiritualist Church in Aberdeen, Scotland 10th October 1995 by Frank Perry. As much as I could fit on the platform and get on a train. I got my first singing bowls in 1971 and now have around 300 of them. These here are antiques extremely hard to find nowadays. I sometimes like to begin a workshop by playing the bowls alone allowing them to speak from within the silence before including the sound of my voice. I have released 14 albums featuring my Tibetan Singing Bowl music and you can find out more about those on my website listed above. It had been arranged to record the evening and so thankfully we have this record.

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[g31n3z3w5k1]

What size bowls or what musical note bowls give of the solfeggio freaquncies of 396hz, 417hz, 528hz, 639hz, 741hz, and 852hz.. the musical fibonacci for DNA repairs... ha its 111 between these numbers=infinity

Nice bowls, good for energy cleansing

[mountainbellmusic]

@g31n3z3w5k1 Hi, Well in workshops for over 3 decades now I've stated that these are for Ritual use and NOT musical. Each bowl has its own unique overtone series and doesn't produce one simple tone - unlike orchestral instruments. There are a variety of bowl designs each with different sound characteristics - hence it is impossible to predict what tones will emerge from any one bowl - and so I cannot advise you. It's better to use sine waves for these specific frequences. Thanks.

[3164791]

@mountainbellmusic

All instruments produce overtones, including orchestral instruments. Bowls and bells definitely produce overtones that are easier to distinguish, but they are not unique in the sense that they produce overtones.Go play a nice low note on the piano and you will hear intervals above the fundamental pitch. These bowls have a nice timbre so they definitely have potential to be musical, though that may not be their original purpose.

[mountainbellmusic]

@3164791 It is true that they are not unique in producing overtones. However, that is not my point. Whilst voice and orchestral instruments obey a law of overtones bells do not conform to this law and, in fact, each and every single bowl has its own unique set of overtones. Scientific research has proved this. It is easier to hear overtones on the piano if one holds down the other notes in the series. One can take two bowls with the same fundamental yet their overtones will not be the same.

[xarlysx]

37 seconds ago i discovered the existence of these things. Now...I must get some.

[tripn87]

I am a young person and I find that many of my friends are starved for this kind of thing and eating it up.

I think with all the distraction from technology my generation is starting to feel like something is missing and are beginning to wake up to a new perspective

with the internet at our fingertips and all information available in an instant, it will only speed things up and evolve faster. faster than any generation before us

[Ryogu]

He's EXTRAAAA-ORDINARY

[GildySanders]

@mountainbellmusic I wish I could afford one of these. I used one with ancient Coptic chants and it was amazing. The Coptic hymns were meant to be chanted for similar purposes.

[3letlovelead7]

Amazing

[LikidySplitz]

I keep trying to enjoy the video but everytime I look down and see amwa19's comment I burst out laughing

[lapmarty]

@g31n3z3w5k1 anyway all my dna related comment were adress to you not montainbelllmusic

[mountainbellmusic]

Compared to a Vibraphone, or other tuned metallic percussion, there are noticeable differences. One of my bowls produces 24 tones - a Vibraphone bar would be rejected if it did this. Two bowls starting from the same fundamental would produce a different set of overtones - as demonstrated at the National Physical Laboratory (a Scientific Institution). Scelsi, Sciarrino, etc work with microtones Harry Partch works on 43 notes to 8ve with what wouldn't usually be recognised as music instruments

[mountainbellmusic]

@lapmarty They're NOT sold as Musical Instruments - they do not play a scale nor are they made to play scales or Music. Persons can search for ones, whose main note is close to our scale, and play them in a 'musical' way (as in Western Church Bells - Carillon) - BUT that is not the intention of the bowl makers. They are not made in a set of 7 CDEFGAB (or 12) and - unlike the classical Flute - it is not always easy to state that they make one sound that is one of the notes of Our diatonic scale.