Looking for a large singing bowl for your sound healing or energy work practice? Did someone you care about ask for a big metal singing bowl as a gift? Cool.
As someone who has tried to find an extra large Himalayan bowl for my energy work practice, I know they are not so easy to locate.
So, I created this list of 17 HUGE singing bowls that are really great. Enjoy!
Size: 21” Also available in 16” inch
Material: Brass
This bowl is so large you could sit it in. Ok, maybe not. But it is certainly big enough to stand in.
In fact, its the ideal size for standing in.
This extra large brass bowl is a favorite of sound healers, sound bath practitioners and Reiki practitioners due to its size. It can be used to have your clients stand in for a deeply felt sound bath and energy cleanse.
This huge metal bowl is the second largest singing bowl on this list.
Size: 12” 2500 grams
Material: 7 Metals (a type of Bronze)
Hand hammered and decorated.
This Large Meditation singing bowl contains a Om Mane Padme Hum Mantra Carved exterior and cast on the interior, with mantras, a lotus flower and a small yin and yang symbol adorning the exterior surface.
Its size and weight will delight and surprise you. It weights 2500 grams and is quite heavy. It rewards you with a deep lingering gong din when you strike it.
This intriguingly etched, hand hammered, large himalayan bowl will be a favorite in your collection.
Size: 21” Inch diameter, 10 inch height, with an amazing 11574 gram weight.
Sound Sample of 21 inch bowl being sung
Material: 7 metals Bronze alloy
If you came to this article looking for extra large singing bowls for sale, you found it. This is one of the largest Himalayan singing bowl on this list, at 21 inches.
Check out the sound sample I provided above. I think you will agree, this bowl has a mesmerizing song when sung. It also has a long lasting resonant gong when struck, as you can see from the video I linked above. I love this himalayan bowl as a singer and a gong.
This HUGE singing bowl has a 21 inch diameter, is 10 inches high, and is one of the heaviest singing bowl on this list at 11574 grams! Its a chonk, as my daughter would say.
Size: 12” 2450 grams.
Sound Sample:
Material: Bronze
Jupiter, or Zeus is god of the weather. The name given to this bowl fits! It has a deep, thunderous & resonant sound that bellows from within and hits you like a bolt of lightning. Well played Jupiter!
This extra large singing bowl would make a great gift for any sound or energy therapist. Its hand hammered, has a pleasing, dark patina and the hammer marks can still be seen, which to me feels like part of its charm.
I would also like to point out the bottom of the bowl is relatively flat and wide compared to others, which means the tone will be deep, especially compared to singing bowls with a similar overall diameter.
Pumori is a mountain on the Nepal-Tibet border in the Mahalangur section of the Himalaya and that is where these large himalayan bowls originate.
The metal of these Pumori bowls is thicker than average and gives the bowl a deep sound with a heavy and long lasting sound that you will FEEL as well as hear.
These bowls are quite heavy and great for at home use, in a studio or for a group sound bath, but they are not nessesarily portable due to size and weight.
This beautiful bronze alloy bowl was carefully hand-engraved with a striking ornamental design. This large Himalayan singing bowl is made in India.
Meinl provides quality music and sound healing instruments and their singing bowls are reflect the quality of the Meinl reputation.
Size: 11.5”. 2500 grams
Material: Special Bronze alloy designed by Meinl for long lasting sound
The Meinl Cosmos series singing bowls are hand forged in India from a special alloy that gives them extra long lasting sound. The booming tone when struck fills a room and can be felt through your entire body.
Size: 7.6” 1000 grams
Material: Bronze Alloy designed especially for creating a long lasting tone
Available with Flower of Life Design or. Venus Flower Design
These 7.6 inch 1000 gram sining bowls by Meinl are made in India from a bronze alloy specifically designed for a long lasting sound.
They are further hand hammered to produce their wide belly, and giving them a wider bottom thereby enhancing their bellowing tone. These skillfully and purposefully crafted singing bowls are made with the sound healer and energy healing professional in mind.
Size: 10” 1950 gram weight 3mm thick
Material: 7 metals bronze alloy
Thamel is the name of a tourist district in Katmandu. That is where Thamelmart derived its name.
Thamelmart has made a good name for themselves in the metal singing bowl space. This popular 10” bowl has a hefty feel and deep sound.
It has a pleasant fundamental tone with a soothing undertone, and the sound seems to go on for a long time.
This metal himalayan bowl is a best selling large singing bowl on Amazon. Its popular, for a good reason, its got good sound and its high quality.
Size: 11” 2300 Gram
Material: 7 Metal Bronze alloy
This large hand hammered meditation singing bowl is hand forged in Nepal from a bronze alloy. It makes a wonderful gong with long lasting resonance and a profound pleasant timbre you will feel to the core.
If you are looking for a meditation gong, I also have a list of traditional gongs here.
But…
What I love about singing bowls that you can’t get from a standard gong is singing bowls have several ways to play them. They sing using the mallet around the rim and also when struck they make a thunderous gong tone with a long lasting din that facilitates focusing your thoughts during meditation.
This large Himalayan singing bowl is wide and deep with a hefty weight. You can hear from the sound sample that the din is deep and very long lasting, and it is easily sung.
I love the long lasting hum because it is ideal as for meditation since it resonates for so long and makes it easy to clear your mind by giving your mind a point of focus.
This gorgeous bowl is made in Nepal and ships from a US based Amazon warehouse so you can have it right away.
This 7 Metal bronze alloy singing bowl has a beautiful sound when struck and feels like it goes on for infinity. The size of this huge metal bowl is impressive and its lovely to look at. It has great energy!
Listen to both sound samples and you will see what I mean, its a really powerful bowl.
This is one of the larger metal singing bowls bowls on this list, at 15” inches and it is quite deep as well. I bet this bowl would be good for experimenting using water inside as well.
This bowl is made in Nepal, but ships from a US based Amazon warehouse so you receive it quickly.
This ample singing bowl is hand forged and hand hammered in Nepal.
You will appreciate this bowl all the more after seeing this short video clip of the bowl being made.
It is made from 7 Metals brass and has a most excellent vibration. It is perfect for singing bowl massage because of its deep reverberation and strong vibration.
This bowl would make an excellent acquisition for any sound healer or energy worker.
This beautiful bowl holds a vibration for a long time. The sound when struck lingers for quite a while. It is a great bowl for meditation and sound therapy or for himalayan bowl massage.
This bowl is hand hammered and polished in Nepal but it should be noted if you are giving this bowl as a gift, the packaging is very plain and simple so you may want to rewrap before giving it as a gift
This singing bowl is not actually too big considering its only got a 5.5” inch diameter. The reason I included it on my list of large Tibetan singing bowls is because, for its diameter, the walls are quite high, and the bowl is quite heavy. Its a big bowl in its own way.
5.5” inches is not exactly small either. 5.5 inches is medium, IMO.
The high walls and heft give this deep belly, rin gong style singing bowl a long lasting, profound roar when struck that I find satisfying. I love it for meditation too, because the sound goes on forever, seemingly.
I have had a few of my readers ask me, “Is it harder to play a large Tibetan singing bowl?¨
Of course its easy to strike a large singing bowl, and what a breathtaking, thunderous roar they make when you do so.
But….
It can be more challenging to sing a large Tibetan singing bowl than their smaller counterparts.
Try these tips to sing your large Tibetan singing bowl:
Photo credit: http://himalayansingingbowl.info/
Place your hand inside the singing bowl. This evens out the vibration and stabilizes the bowl so you can achieve a smoother even hum.
You do not necessarily need to rub the mallet all the way around the rim to build up enough singing vibration.
See how the person in this video rubs the mallet back and forth across only one section of the edge to develop enough reverberation to cause the oversized singing bowl to sing.
Tin is a soft silvery colored metal that is included in Bronze. Tin has a crystalline like structure and is very pliant.
Many singing bowls are made with a special type of Bronze called bell metal, which is a mix of copper and tin, although it can include other metals.
Singing bowls may have very small amounts of other metal, some even claim to have gold and silver although this is hard to verify.
Copper and tin, or bell metal, has distinct properties not found in the metals separately. The combination produces metal that is harder than tin or copper separately, and has excellent reverberation leading to resounding gong like sound when struck.
Combining copper and tin also makes the bowl longer wearing and the bowl naturally, over time, creates a patina that protects it from oxidation.
While Bronze is a mix of Copper and tin, Brass is a mix of copper and zinc.
To be sure, they share some similar properties and both create excellent bells, gongs and singing bowls.
But what’s the difference?
As far as singing bowls go, this answer is rather anti-climactic.
Brass is more malleable, and bronze is more pliable.
What does that even mean? OK, in terms of metal, malleable means it is easier to hammer, beat and extend.
Pliable, in metal, means its is soft, flexible, easily bent.
Brass has a more gold like color and a prettier shine, IMO. Bronze is a bit darker gold tone metal.
Bronze is a harder metal and can not be machined as easily, so bronze bowls are almost always sand cast and hand hammered.
As far as sound goes, the sound quality between a brass and bronze singing bowl is hard to differentiate. Brass is brighter, almost lighter sound, and bronze has a more profound sound.
The closest I could find is this YouTube video. Its not singing bowls in the video, but instead compares two of the same model saxaphone, only one is brass and one is bronze. The difference is subtle. Really subtle.
Interesting to note: True authentic antique (really hard to find and expensive) singing bowls are made from bronze. None of the bowls in this list are antiques. I am not an antique expert and would never pretend to be, but be aware there are some out there who try to pass off modern bowls as antiques.
Yes and no.
Yes they all have many notes, and no, they are usually not tuned to a particular note.
Most singing bowls are not tuned to a particular note because it is not only challenging to do so, but each bowl is capable of producing several notes depending on how it is struck or sung.
Singing the bowl around the rim with the leather side of the mallet may produce a note in the middle of the bowls range, while using the hard side of a wood mallet may produce a higher tone, and using a soft mallet to strike the bowl makes a lower tone.
That makes sense when you think about it. The sound of the singing bowl depends, in part, on the frequency it vibrates at. A soft mallet strike vibrates slower and produces a lower tone.
Of course size also matters, of course, and that affects vibration rate and sound as well.
I hope you enjoyed perusing this list of large Tibetan singing bowls and find just the right one for your practice.
If you are interested, I also wrote an article on Crystal singing bowls, which I believe have their own distinct, decidedly modern vibe. Check it out!
Note: I can be contacted in the comments or at my email, info@highvibrationstation.com
All the best to you, In Love!
Katie Lyn
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