Opaque Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 8" G Note | C=528 Tuning | #281

I am the foundation before anything is added

🎵 Size: 8" | Note: G | Cents: +34 | Frequency: 799 Hz | Tuning: C=528 Love Tuning | Octave: 4 | A=432 Equivalent: G#-36 | Bowl #: 281 ✨ Element: Opaque Quartz 💎 | Body Resonance: Torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, solar plexus, diaphragm, mid-spine, core 🌬️ | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Throat | Cycle of Fifths: Solar Plexus 💫

This pure opaque quartz crystal singing bowl sounds in G at 799 Hz, resonating with the throat chakra and the torso, chest cavity, and core. Opaque quartz—the gemstone itself, not an infusion—offers foundational clarity and gentle amplification. The milky luminosity of this bowl meets the frequency of expression, creating an instrument that helps you find your voice while staying grounded in your body.

BEST FOR

• Throat chakra work and authentic self-expression
• Teachers and speakers preparing for presentations
• Writers seeking clarity before beginning a project
• Morning ritual and intention-setting for the day ahead
• Sound healers supporting communication and truth-telling
• Parents creating calm transitions at homework or bedtime
• Anyone finding their voice during life transitions

ESSENCE

I am the foundation before anything is added—pure quartz in its most essential form. When you reach for me, you're not reaching for enhancement or transformation. You're reaching for clarity itself. I don't impose an agenda; I amplify what's already true. This milky softness you see isn't absence—it's presence, the way morning fog holds light differently than clear sky. I am the steady companion who reflects your voice back so you can hear what you actually said.

THE ELEMENT

Opaque quartz is pure silicon dioxide—the same composition as clear quartz, the same gemstone revered for millennia as the "master healer." The difference lies in formation: microscopic inclusions of air and fluid create the milky luminosity you see, like quartz found naturally along riverbeds and mountain slopes. This isn't a lesser form of crystal; it's quartz following its own nature, some wanting clarity, some wanting this soft, diffused glow.

The Greeks named quartz krystallos, believing it was ice frozen so completely it could never melt. They weren't wrong about the permanence. With a hardness of 7 on the Mohs scale and a trigonal crystalline structure, quartz resists scratching, shrugs off acids, and generates electrical charge under pressure—the piezoelectric property that makes it essential in everything from watches to semiconductors. When you strike or rim this bowl, that same property translates mechanical energy into sustained vibration.

Divine Bowls forms each opaque quartz bowl in a single seamless vessel at over 3,000°F. The milky quality emerges during this process—evenly dispersed air inclusions throughout the quartz, creating a surface that feels like smooth river stone rather than glass. This microstructure becomes part of what vibrates, producing a tone many describe as softer and more enveloping than clear quartz. When you work with opaque quartz, you're working with the gemstone in its most accessible form—no agenda, pure amplification of whatever intention you bring.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in G at 799 Hz, resonating with the throat chakra in the Western diatonic system. The G frequency carries the energetic quality of expression, communication, and truth—vibrating through your torso, chest cavity, and the space where breath becomes voice. This is the note of articulation, of saying what needs to be said.

When opaque quartz's clarifying nature meets the throat chakra's frequency, something practical emerges: the ability to hear yourself clearly enough to speak authentically. People often notice a settling in the chest and throat when this bowl sounds—not a pushing outward, but a clearing of the channel. The milky quartz doesn't add its own message; it simply makes more room for yours.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 799 Hz. Using A=440 as reference, it plays G+34 cents. Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is G#-36 cents.

This bowl is categorized in the C=528 tuning because its frequency aligns with instruments tuned so that middle C equals 528 Hz—known as the "Love Frequency" in Solfeggio tradition. This brighter tuning is associated with heart-opening qualities and joyful expansion. The slightly elevated pitch creates an uplifting, clarifying resonance that many find energizing. If you're building a collection around C=528 instruments, this bowl will harmonize beautifully with them.

(For fine adjustment, adding water to the bowl lowers the pitch slightly—a technique some use to dial in precise intervals when playing with other instruments.)

THE SIZE

At 8 inches, this bowl produces fourth-octave tones with medium-long sustain—enough ring to fill a room without overwhelming intimate spaces. The full, projecting volume makes it versatile: equally at home on a nightstand for morning ritual, in a classroom for transition moments, at the center of a small group meditation, or on a desk for a centering pause before a meeting.

This size allows opaque quartz's gentle amplification to express with warmth rather than intensity. The fourth-octave resonance naturally targets the core and torso—the transitional zone where breath originates and voice begins. For anyone working with expression, communication, or simply wanting a beautiful sound to mark moments throughout the day, this size offers the balance of presence and accessibility.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you need to clear the channel between thought and speech. Before a presentation, a difficult conversation, or any moment requiring authentic expression, three minutes with this frequency can settle the nervous system and clarify intention. Play it in the morning while setting your focus for the day. Sound it in a classroom to signal transitions. Use it to close a meeting, letting the sustained tone mark the shift from collective work back to individual tasks.

To begin, simply rim the bowl slowly with the mallet, letting the tone build. Notice where you feel the vibration—often the chest, throat, and solar plexus respond to this frequency. You don't need technique or training. The bowl does its work through physics: sound waves moving through your body, your nervous system responding to sustained, coherent vibration. Breathe naturally. Listen. Notice what becomes clearer.

Each Divine Bowls singing bowl includes a pure quartz mallet wrapped in premium silicone for optimal resonance, plus a silicone O-ring for stable playing on hard surfaces. Every bowl is formed in a single seamless vessel from 99.995% pure quartz—no welds, no weak points—built to last lifetimes of use.

INVITATION

The bowl that doesn't add—it clarifies. The one that doesn't transform your voice—it makes room for it. If you've been looking for the instrument that helps you hear yourself before you speak, or the sound that settles the space between thought and words, this might be it. Opaque quartz doesn't arrive with an agenda. It amplifies what's already true. And at 799 Hz in G, it vibrates exactly where breath becomes voice—the throat, the chest, the place where you decide what gets said out loud. For the teacher before the classroom, the parent before the hard conversation, the presenter before the stage, the writer before the blank page, the person who just wants three minutes of clarity before the day begins—this bowl creates the conditions. It doesn't do the work for you. It never could. But it holds steady while you find your way to what's real. If that's what you need right now, it's here.