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Below is our current stock. Please click on the photos to see the bowls in more details.
Hermetic Bowl 308 is about 10 inches or 25cm across. I made this five string Cherry instrument at the 2011 woodturners international symposium as part of a demonstration and sharing of techniques. Cherry has a light and lively tone reminiscent of a girl’s singing, of May, dancing and flower filled meadows. It comes uncased with the usual set guides to playing and meditating with a five string Sounding Bowl. Only £651
Number 306 is a large Ash Bridging Bowl, about 20 inches or 50cm across with a carved underside by Ramon Floride, to date my most skilled Sounding Bowl apprentice, now fully graduated. Ash and the 16 strings give this bowl and strong, rich sound with plenty of inner direction and remarkable resonance and overtones. More photos or details on request. Cased with full tuning instructions, guides and backup for £2388
Hermetic Bowl 304 is exceptionally deep and about 10 inches or 25cm across. I made this five string Cherry instrument at the 2011 woodturners international symposium as part of the demonstration and sharing of techniques. The depth gives extra warmth to the lively tone of Cherry which usually puts me in mind of May, dancing and flower meadows. It comes uncased with the usual set guides to playing and meditating with a five string Sounding Bowl. Only £671
Hermetic Bowl 301 from Sycamore is about 9 inches or 22cm across with three strings. In spite of it’s small size the body of sound from this piece is as rich and warm as I have heard from three strings. Sycamore has a spreading, generative, protective nature that comes through the sound as much as it does through the big leaves, many seedlings and rounded shape of parkland examples. It comes uncased with the usual guides to playing and meditating with a three string Sounding Bowl. £392
Hermetic Bowl 299 is about 10 inches or 25cm across with five strings. Yew is a rich orange colour and the sound has a sense of ageless strength and depths. The open shape makes this sound feel easy to relate to. It comes uncased with the usual guides to playing and meditating with a five string Sounding Bowl. Only £688
Meditation Bowl number 296 is about 8” or 20cm across with three strings. Holly has a delightfully bright, star-like sound. Imagine the spiky nature of the leaves combined with the delicacy of the little white flowers that show on this tree all year round, and add in the brightness of the red berries to get a feeling for the inner nature of the sound of Holly. Meditation Bowls have a shape that adds warmth to any sound. These two together give this little three string Sounding Bowl quite a special nature. The Holly comes to the workshop as fresh felled tree. This one was turned before seasoning, giving an uneven shape and slightly brighter sound. Comes uncased with the usual guides to playing and meditating with a five string Sounding Bowl. Only £497
Hermetic Bowl number 295 is about 10” across with five strings. Holly has a delightfully bright, star-like sound. Imagine something of the spiky nature of the leaves combined with the delicacy of the little white flowers that show on this tree all year round, and add in the brightness of the red berries to get a feeling for the inner nature of the sound of Holly. Hermetic Bowls have a more open shape. The sound is more mercurial, less intimate, more genial. These two together give this little three string Sounding Bowl quite a special nature. The Holly comes to the workshop as fresh felled tree. This one was seasoned before turning giving a smooth even shape and slightly warmer sound. Comes uncased with the usual guides to playing and meditating with a five string Sounding Bowl. £688
Meditation Bowl number 294 is about 8” or 20cm across with three strings. Holly has a delightfully bright, star-like sound. Imagine something of the spiky nature of the leaves combined with the delicacy of the little white flowers that show on this tree all year round, and add in the brightness of the red berries to get a feeling for the inner nature of the sound of Holly. Meditation Bowls have a shape that adds warmth to any sound. These two together give this little three string Sounding Bowl quite a special nature. The Holly comes to the workshop as fresh felled tree. This one was seasoned before turning giving a smooth even shape and slightly warmer sound. Comes uncased with the usual guides to playing and meditating with a five string Sounding Bowl. Only £497
Lyre Bowl number 292 is about 11 inches or 27cm across and exceptional for many reasons. Firstly the carved base by Joe Hornby is hugely successful, an example of how beautiful carved texture on turning can be. Shown on left, underside as well as edge-on, the tuning handle has been balanced on the centre tuning peg. It is also exceptional to get Holly in this size. I never know when we might get more. The tone of this piece combines the steady strength of Lyre Bowl dynamics with the bright sparkling nature of Holly’s note. Comes uncased with the usual guides to playing and meditating with a five string Sounding Bowl. Considerable value at £774
Meditation Bowl number 289 is about 8” or 20cm across with three strings. The grain has the mixed dark and light of English Ash. The sound has that sense of direction and purpose that characterises this wood, Meditation Bowls have a shape that adds warmth to any sound. Comes uncased with the usual guides to meditating with sound at £473
Meditation Bowl No.286 in Strawberry wood (Arbutus) has that tone of warm forgiveness so characteristic of this sweet sounding wood. It is rare to get Arbutus large enough for Sounding Bowls. This is another pretty well unrepeatable piece. Being about 8inch across it will fit in one hand. Three notes spanning up to an octave depending on choice and application. Comes with guidance on using sound and tonal meditations Uncased £497
The sound of Melody Bowl 282 ranges from warm deep notes up to silvery top notes. With seven pentatonic notes that have no semitone dissonance this Cherry instrument is ideal for working with children or any placement seeking gentleness and harmony. Cased at £1193 or optional uncased POA
Meditation Bowls in Cherry such as No.281 have a bright depth to the sound. Both warm yet light and ephemeral this sound is like the passing waves of light that scud across the woodland floor on a day of small clouds. The five strings make a wide variety of tonal meditations possible. Uncased at £752
Walnut with 11 strings as in this Lyre Bowl 276 is pretty special. Large Walnut is not easy to find but has a tone with something deeply wise about it. The tuning is from D, warm, deep and holding. Subtle wisdom is the key phrase for the feelings from such a piece as this. Cased at £2093
275 has a most remarkable tone. Extraordinarily sweet and comforting. What really amazed me is that the wood is from a most unusual tree. Offered to us in the last summer Arbutus is commonly known as the Christmas Strawberry tree, native to S.E. Ireland. The wood warps a lot, is very hard to dry without splits but has a very fine grain. This is one of few pieces we will be able to offer from this rare tree. It is elegant, tender coloured with pink tones and a really special tone. It comes cased at £1657
Hermetic Bowl 273 in Yew combines the lightness of the style with the depth of the sound that Yew gives. The intensely veined growth pattern of Yew has left two gaps in the form that further lighten the sound. A fragile piece for a someone wanting lightly to touch rooted issues.
A three string Hermetic Bowl in Cherry 272 is around 9 inches across and has a delightfully light feel to it, the weight, wood, sound and design all combine to add bright sweetness to it’s nature. Cherry is one of the most feminine of woods being traditionally related to Moon and Venus. Even the price is light at £392
Hermetic Bowl No.267 is in Cherry. It’s thinner design adds to the lightness and joyousness of the Cherry voice. Uncased at 944
Hermes and the Sacred Fool are closely related. 266 is a Hermetic Bowl with a hint of Motley. Like a true fool the tone is warm and bright. Sycamore from a local tree. Uncased £944
7 string Melody Bowls like 263, in Sycamore here have a delightfully simple tone that still surprises with it’s warmth and gentleness. Not many small instruments can offer this combination. Truly a lovely little Sounding Bowl. Cased £1193
A Nine string Melody Bowl. No 260 is made from Sycamore with rich markings. Modeled on the one I used for lullabies with my children its warm tone and C scale make it easy to enjoy alone or for playing to others. Hard case as std. £1582
A 9 string Lyre Bowl like No. 254 in Sycamore has the full Major scale, easily adjustable to minor or to modes such as the Mixolydian. Most songs fit within these nine notes. Improvisation on a Lyre Bowl is more easily outside the expected norms of western music as the alternating string pattern gives rise to cadences of its own. Sycamore has a warm and full voice possibly comparable with good operatic tradition. Beautiful hand made, soft lined hard case as usual, £1548
From the same Sycamore tree as 240 is this large Lyre Bowl, No 241. 17 strings gives it two octaves and two notes, allowing a wide range of modes and scales. The deepest note, F’ is rich and the whole tone of the bowl is warm and it’s low profile makes it open and giving in tone. £2686
This is the largest Sounding Bowl I have made, 29” across. The portrait image shows scale. Three full octaves is a lot of notes, way down to a low C” with a very ‘bassy’ timbre. A professional musician who played this in the workshop for half on hour in April found it enveloped him in a rich dream-space. No.240 is Sycamore with a wonderful flare from the fork of the tree and two places in which the outside shape of the tree dipped down through the bowl leaving natural edge holes, the larger big enough for a thumb to pass through. Cased in a wine red hard case complete with carrying strap as well as the normal handle this Bridging pattern Sounding Bowl is £3427
With seven strings No.239 has pentatonic notes with no discord. Speaking to the Child in us or for working with children the rich blue colour and golden pegs echo the night sky encouraging entry into deep dream states and access to buried issues. Ash wood speaks direct to the heart, it’s grain shows within the colour, rippled and complex. Cased. £1223
Number 194, tuned in C major, or any scale running through C has a bright and warm tone typical of the local sycamore also used in 218 below. Nine strings gives you a full diatonic scale plus the extra note so useful for stepping outside the octave and completing the song. £1582 includes the made to measure hard case.
This 12 string Lyre Bowl in Sycamore No 139 is exceptional. It was made for a an Egyptologist leading parties overnight into the Kings Chamber. The sound is extremely light filled yet warm and very ‘wide’ or inclusive in feel. The wood is an exceptional piece of local Sycamore with more silvery ripple and light in the grain than I have ever seen. Life changes meant that the customer hardly used her Sounding Bowl and now wants to sell it. In wonderful as new condition the asking price is nearly two hundred below retail. An exceptional bargain at £1799 cased.
The Suni Harp prototype was developed for New York glass artist and harpist, Ulla Darni on images she received from a spirit guide. Apparently there was a Tibetan musician called ‘Suni’ living in Japan around 350 years ago whose reputation as a performer rested in a small way on the instrument she played. According to the images and descriptions of Ulla’s guide the instrument was very like this one.
Personally I prefer to believe that this stringing pattern is unique in musical history but there is no documentary evidence for or against this, or the existence of Suni so far. We would both be interested if anyone has anything to offer.
In the meantime I made this 18 string "Suni Harp" as a prototype for the 24 string version I made for Ulla. This one is made from Sycamore. 19” x 9” x 3” The tone is remarkably bright, full and harmonious for such a small instrument, having a quality that charms listeners. 18inches long by 9 inches wide by 3 deep. £1220 including case and tuning key.
