THE LANGUAGE OF SINGING BOWLS
Choose, play and understand your bowl
FRANK PERRY
Singing bowls - often referred to as Tibetan bowls, although they come from a much larger region - have the potential to be the perfect companions of all who enjoy sound as a way of finding peace. You do not need enormous technique or training to extract beautiful sound from a singing bowl. This short book gives you all you need to know to play your bowl, even in public.
With Frank Perry - generally acknowledged master in the tradition - as your guide, you can not only aid your meditation practice, your yoga session or simply your quiet evening: more, you can understand and develop the power of the sound you are making.
Frank tells you almost everything you need to know about bowls and even the expert will find new insights. From this book you can choose and identify the bowls you want, learn what each is most useful for, and begin to make out the highly individual harmonics of each, known as ‘partials’. You can build up a regular practice.
You will also learn the elements of sound healing, get to know the history of singing bowls, and gain insights into the language that they speak. Suggestions are given for rituals on special festival days, such as the New Year.
Your singing bowl practice will be transformed.
ISBN 978-1-905398-38-6
80 pp in full colour, large-format paperback
October 2017
£9.99
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About the Author
Frank Perry was one of the pioneers of singing bowls back in the 1970s, leaving a career as a percussionist with groups such as Black Cat Bones. He is the author of the much larger work, HIMALAYAN SOUND REVELATIONS, for Polair, which in its new second edition runs to over 500 pages and goes into the subject with unrivalled detail. When not playing, Frank operates as artist and spiritual astrologer; he has also invented instruments and produces wooden wands to play thee bowls. So far he has produced 109 recordings of his music.