One thing I really enjoy doing is putting together large sets of antique singing bowls. I use my ears, eyes and intuition to make a whole that is greater then the sum of its parts.
This half hour video of me playing one of these sets was filmed and edited by my local community television station. Good portions of the video are simply the sounds of the bowls so you can sit back and enjoy the profound Himalayan sounds. There are also some sections with me talking and answering questions from the audience.
One thing to notice is how I use different mallets with different bowls. You can hear how different mallets can change the sound of a single bowl and also see how bowl types are better rung with some mallets than others. If you are going to play a large number of bowls at once long handle mallets are a must. I just love how exact you can get using the Musser professional mallets.
The set I was playing, 144 bowls in all, is a commercial set put together specifically for concerts. By commercial I mean for sale. I sold the entire set to one buyer who now has one of the best collections of singing bowls in the US. The photo on the right is me laying out a set for a concert around Christmas time in 2008.
If you are interested in a large high quality set please contact me. Drawing on my concert experience I have experience putting together a number of great sounding singing bowl assemblages. Sometimes I have sets in stock in the US, other times I assemble them in Asia based on pre-orders. When I put together a set I spend many hours on labeling. I do not put together a monolithic set but a series of groupings that can be played individually or together. I also label bowls for relationship.
Custom sets start at $10,000 though the set featured in the video sold for much more than that.
Say, if you are interested in a copy of this video send me an email. A few people already have, if I get a critical mass I’ll burn a few.
