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A winter evening with Tibetan singing bowls
On a winter evening, Tibetan singing bowls hum together in a calm room, and you can listen free in any browser. Bronze bowls sit on small cushions, and low beams cross the ceiling above you.
Their long, warm tones swell and melt into one another until you cannot tell where one bowl ends and the next begins. A deep drone breathes underneath, slow and steady.
A large bowl is struck with a padded mallet, and a full note rolls through the room. A small bowl answers, high and clear. Sometimes a wooden stick circles a rim until one tone grows and fades. When the small hand cymbals touch, their bright ring hangs in the air, and you go still.
For the bowls without the drone or the cymbals, choose Bowls only under the picture. Steady hum only keeps the soft, even hum of the bowls and leaves out every strike.
The bowls and cymbals you hear
- Singing bowls humming: Several metal bowls ring softly at once. Their long, warm tones hum, swell, and fade into each other. Plays all the time.
- Warm drone: A deep, steady note under the bowls, breathing slowly with soft, bright overtones. Plays all the time.
- Large bowl struck: A big bronze bowl is struck once with a padded mallet. The full tone wavers gently and fades over many seconds. Plays at random moments, about once every 10 minutes.
- Small bowl struck: A small bowl is tapped once with a wooden mallet and rings out high, pure, and clear. Plays at random moments, about once every 10 minutes.
- Two bowls struck: A larger and a smaller bowl are struck one after the other, and both tones ring together before they fade. Plays at random moments, about once every 10 minutes.
- Singing bowl rubbed: Someone runs a wooden stick slowly around the rim, and a single tone grows and then fades into silence. Plays at random moments, about once every 10 minutes.
- Small hand cymbals: A pair of small brass cymbals touch once, and a clear, high ring lingers in the quiet room. Plays at random moments, about once every 10 minutes.
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