Fun with shipping

wolf · 11-25-2004, 12:12 AM

It actually takes a fair degree of control and wrist strength to keep moving the stick around the bowl without having it chatter. It's an awesome feeling when you get it right though. If at all possible, have someone "play" it with you lying down and moving it from your feet to your head.

Realigns your chakras and breaks up blocks too.

xoxoxoBruce · 11-25-2004, 03:52 AM

Looks like the same or a similar alloy to cymbals.

richlevy · 11-25-2004, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Looks like the same or a similar alloy to cymbals.

The one I got is more modern and is a silver color. It's more than 5 inches in diameter and about 3 inches deep. The walls are at least 1/8" thick. The bowl weighs over 2 pounds. When struck with the padded end of the mallet the tone is a deep gong. When rubbed with the wooden end of the stick I have gotten different tones, from deep to an almost shrill high pitch.

The only concern I have is for lead in the alloy. Although noone rubs these directly with their hands, I remember the rumors about Benjamin Franklin's glass armonica causing lead poisoning. This is ironic since Franklin was one of the first individuals to warn about lead poisoning.

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Some of the people who performed regularly on the armonica complained that the instrument was upsetting them emotionally. They said that the vibrations were entering their fingertips and causing mental anguish. There has been some conjecture that these conditions were caused by lead poisoning that the performers acquired from lead in the glass hemispheres of the instrument. Lead was a commonly used metal in the eighteenth century, so it is difficult to determine if these players' maladies came from the lead in the armonica or from other sources.

I don't intend to use it every day and I will be using a stick, so if there is lead in the alloy, it shouldn't be a problem.

BTW, I also bought a Kalachakra Car Hanging

limey · 11-26-2004, 01:58 PM

I've got one of those. What I've noticed is that if I give it to a friend and they get it to sing, then it doesn't sing for me again straight away, as though we have to get realigned to each other ...

11-25-2004, 12:12 AM	#1
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	It actually takes a fair degree of control and wrist strength to keep moving the stick around the bowl without having it chatter. It's an awesome feeling when you get it right though. If at all possible, have someone "play" it with you lying down and moving it from your feet to your head. Realigns your chakras and breaks up blocks too. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

11-25-2004, 03:52 AM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Looks like the same or a similar alloy to cymbals. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

11-26-2004, 01:58 PM	#4
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	I've got one of those. What I've noticed is that if I give it to a friend and they get it to sing, then it doesn't sing for me again straight away, as though we have to get realigned to each other ... __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

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