Re: OT-fundamentals in sound (was singing bowls)

[Bret <echoplex@yahoo.com>]

--- rich <rich@nuvision.com> wrote:
> Maybe it's too much of an open ended discussion to compare hand 
> hammered brass bowls (actually, from what i know, tibetan bowls are 
> not just brass but a combination of metals) to speaker cones and 
> enclosures?
> 

Per 'Singing Bowls" by Eva Rudy Jansen (Binkey Kok Publications),
"According to tradition, the bowls are made of 7 metals: one for each
of the planets:
gold-the Sun, silver-the Moon, mercury-Mercury, copper-Venus,
iron-Mars, tin-Jupiter, lead-Saturn"

She goes on to say that the mixture was secret, and probably varied
accoring to region, and what was on hand.  The whole bowl thing is a
mystery according to Eva, that if you ask a monk or tibetan about them
they will deny knowledge, or say they are for food or storage, and they
know of no 'Singing Bowls'
bret


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