Choosing Your Crystal Singing Bowls

Choosing the right crystal singing bowls for sound healing is of paramount importance for students, practitioners and clients alike.

High-quality crystal singing bowls are essential for producing pure, harmonious tones that are fundamental to the efficacy of sound healing. The quality of the sound produced by these bowls can deeply influence the therapeutic outcomes of a session. When the bowls generate consistent and resonant tones, they facilitate a deeper state of relaxation and meditation, enhancing the healing process.

Conversely, lower-quality bowls with impurities or inconsistencies can produce discordant sounds that may disrupt the meditative state and reduce the overall effectiveness of the therapy.

In this blog, we explore a few things to consider when buying crystal singing bowls before enrolling on one of our sound healing courses.

What Types Of Crystal Singing Bowls Can I Choose From?

There are a number of different types of crystal singing bowls that you can choose from.

White Frosted & Colored Frosted Quartz Bowls

These are the sturdiest bowls and also the most affordable. They are rough on the outside, smooth on the inside, and come in different notes of the scale. They are also the loudest and great for using in large spaces.

Be careful to play them gently and sensitively, otherwise they may be too loud!

Clear Quartz Bowls

Clear Quartz Crystal Singing Bowls are more expensive (about double the price of frosted bowls) but tend to have a longer sustain. They are more fragile too and even though they look like glass, they're actually made of quartz crystal.

They are quieter and great in a 1-2-1 sound healing session or playing for yourself. 

Clear Bowls Infused With Minerals

These bowls are like the clear ones but also infused with minerals such as gold, tanzanite, amethyst, rose quartz, platinum. So they also have the healing properties of these crystals.

Alchemy Bowls

Alchemy Crystal Singing Bowls are more solid as they are made from quartz and blended with crystals, minerals or precious metals. They are very expensive, at least £1000, but very powerful.

Practitioner Bowls

These have a handle, making them easy to play in the biofield around the body. The clear ones have a very long sustain, making them suitable for 1-2-1 sound healing sessions and playing over a client with a number of techniques.

There are a couple of things to be aware of when buying crystal singing bowls. 

Tuning

The note A (above middle C) is tuned to 440 Hz.

This is in line with standard orchestral tuning, which allows all the instruments of the orchestra to be in tune with each other. If you are playing with other musicians or sound healers, you will need to check that your instruments have the same tuning.  

The note A is tuned to 432 Hz. This is thought to be a more harmonious, healing tuning and is claimed to be a “universal frequency”. 

So when you buy your crystal singing bowls, make sure that they are all the same tuning system.

If you have some that are A440 and some that are A432, you won’t be able to make harmonious intervals. 

Perfect Pitch

Check whether your bowls are “perfect pitch”, which is considered anything between ten cents below to ten cents above perfect pitch zero, or exact perfect pitch. If they are more than 10 cents (plus or minus) they won’t be perfect pitch and may not make harmonious intervals.