Small Antique Lingam Singing & Water Bowl – Unique Voice and Form

Antique Lingam Singing and Water Bowl.   Eb4 & A6 (Solar Plexus & Third Eye Chakras)

Weight 0 lb 10 ½ oz. (295 grams).   Size 14 x 5 cm (5 ½ x 2 inches)

This small 19th century Lingam Singing Bowl has two excellent and uncommon voices…middle Eb (320Hz) when struck and a high sixth octave A (1737Hz) when played around the rim with a wooden ringer.

This little bowl has lots of character and some unusual features including a gently mounded lingam with a tiny circle at its centre, and several deeply incised lines encircling the inner rim which I believe act as markers…fill the bowl with water up to the line and rock gently while it’s singing to alter the pitch.  The outer wall features a decorative band that forms a collar below the rim, below which a series of seemingly random gashes of a ritual nature encircle the bowl.  There are also a few high up on the inside.  It has a neat navel underneath too.

This fascinating little singing bowl is in excellent structural condition and essentially clean but with some grime and light staining here and there.  I love it!

The price includes a Tibetan silk brocade bowl cushion and a ringer.

Note: Audio clips coming soon.