Re: Noises through pickups

["Clifford@BienAppraisers" <bienappraisers@mindspring.com>]

Singing bowls are traditional brass bowls from I forget what asian country-
they use a thick wooden pestle-like handles-   you rub the outher rim of 
the
bowl in a 360 degree rotation and it begins to resonate- VERY cool- one day
I will start collecting these things- I have always loved gongs etc-

Cliff

-----Original Message-----
From: Allan Hoeltje <ahoeltje@best.com>
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
<Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Date: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: Noises through pickups


>Dennis,
>
>What are these "singing bowls"?  An off-list friend of mine just
>recently told me about crucibles salvaged from the computer chip
>industry (used to melt silicon) that ring intensely when rubbed.  Could
>these be the same thing?  Where did you get them?  What are they made
>of?
>
>-Allan
>|:????:|
>
>Dennis Leas wrote:
>>
>> ...The pick-ups also work on most of my cymbals, gongs,  and singing
>> bowls, interestingly enough....
>