Herkimer Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 10" A# Note | C=528 Tuning | #1679

I am the question that cuts through to what you already know

🎵 Size: 10" | Note: A# | Cents: +20 | Frequency: 236 Hz | Tuning: C=528 Love Tuning | Octave: 3 | A=432 Equivalent: B-47 | Bowl #: 1679 ✨ Element: Herkimer Diamond 💎 | Body Resonance: Pelvis, hips, legs, sitting bones, lower spine, foundational connection to earth 🦶 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Third Eye/Crown transition | Cycle of Fifths: N/A 💫

This Herkimer diamond crystal singing bowl sounds in A#/B♭ at 236 Hz, resonating at the threshold between third eye and crown chakras while vibrating through the pelvis, hips, and foundational body structures. Herkimer diamond supports mental clarity, spiritual attunement, and the courage to trust one's own knowing. When this ancient double-terminated quartz meets a frequency that bridges intuition and cosmic awareness, the result is grounded insight—clarity that doesn't float away but anchors in the body.

BEST FOR

• Mental clarity and cutting through confusion or overthinking
• Students preparing for exams or deep focus study sessions
• Writers and creatives breaking through blocks to access first instincts
• Sound healers supporting clients ready for honest self-inquiry
• Executives centering before presentations or high-stakes decisions
• Anyone navigating life transitions who needs to hear their own voice clearly
• Meditation practitioners seeking attunement without bypassing embodiment

ESSENCE

I am the light that waited half a billion years to meet you. Formed in stillness—small pockets of ancient stone where no other crystal competed for space—I grew facet by facet until I became what you see now: clear as intention itself. I don't gather energy and hold it. I move it. Amplify it. Broadcast it outward like a question that cuts through noise. Bring me into your morning, your meeting, your moment of decision, and I'll help you hear the difference between intuition and anxiety. I'm not interested in comfortable answers. I'm here for the ones you already know.

THE ELEMENT

Herkimer diamonds are double-terminated quartz crystals—silicon dioxide formed with pyramidal points at both ends—that developed over 500 million years in small cavities within dolostone along New York's Mohawk River Valley. Unlike crystals that grow attached to matrix rock, Herkimers formed suspended in silica-rich fluid, free-floating in their pockets, which accounts for their exceptional clarity and their distinctive eighteen-faced geometry. They're not actually diamonds, but their brilliance earned them the name.

What makes Herkimer unique among quartz varieties is its double termination: energy radiates from both ends simultaneously, moving rather than storing. This omnidirectional quality is why people describe working with Herkimer as clarifying rather than grounding—it doesn't anchor you so much as illuminate what's already there. Indigenous peoples of the Mohawk Valley collected these crystals for tools and trade adornments long before European settlers arrived; their clarity made them valuable across cultures and centuries.

When Herkimer diamond is infused into a singing bowl through Divine Bowls' proprietary process, its crystalline structure integrates at the molecular level during formation—not as a surface coating, but as part of what vibrates. The resulting microstructure produces resonance patterns distinct from clear quartz alone: people often describe the tone as brighter, more electric, with an alertness that cuts through mental fog. This is a bowl for moments when you need to see clearly, even when clarity is uncomfortable.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in A#/B♭ at 236 Hz, resonating at the transition between third eye and crown chakras in the Western diatonic system. This threshold frequency carries the energetic quality of transcendent knowing—cosmic awareness that remains connected to embodied experience. The vibration moves through your pelvis, hips, and lower spine, creating an unusual pairing: high spiritual attunement grounded through your most foundational body structures.

When Herkimer's clarifying precision meets this bridging frequency, something interesting happens. The mental sharpness the stone offers doesn't float upward into abstraction—it anchors through sitting bones and foundational connection to earth. People working with this bowl often report that insights feel more trustworthy, more actionable, because they're experienced in the body rather than just the mind.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 236 Hz. Using A=440 as reference, it plays A#+20 cents. (Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is B-47 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—a natural complement to Herkimer's illuminating properties. If you play alongside instruments tuned to C=528, this bowl will harmonize beautifully. (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 10 inches, this bowl produces third-octave tones with very long sustain—sound that continues to develop and shimmer well after the mallet leaves the rim. The deep, penetrating volume fills large spaces easily, making it ideal for group sound baths, ceremonial settings, yoga studios, or conference rooms where you want sound to reach everyone present. At home, this size commands a living room or creates an immersive personal experience.

This larger format allows Herkimer's electric clarity to express with full authority—the double-terminated energy broadcasting through sustained resonance that seems to search out corners and settle into bones. The third-octave depth naturally targets your foundational body structures, grounding the stone's mental sharpness through pelvis and sitting bones rather than letting it scatter upward.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when your thinking feels tangled—when you've been asking everyone else what you should do, when anxiety masquerades as intuition, when you need to hear your own voice beneath the noise. It's equally valuable before a presentation, during a study session, at the start of a team meeting, or in those quiet morning moments before the house wakes.

Begin simply: strike the bowl once and let the sound develop. Notice where the vibration lands in your body—likely lower than you'd expect for such a clarifying stone. As the sustain continues, you might find thoughts settling into order, the urgent ones separating from the important ones. Some people hold a question lightly while playing, not forcing an answer but creating space for one to surface. Teachers use this bowl to focus a classroom before tests; athletes use it for visualization before competition; writers use it to cut through the second-guessing that blocks first drafts. There's no wrong way to work with clarity.

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

Still here?

That's the thing about clarity—it doesn't rush you. It just waits, the way I waited five hundred million years in my pocket of stone, growing facet by facet in perfect stillness.

I'm not for everyone. I'm for the person who's tired of asking everyone else what they should do. The one who needs to hear their own voice beneath the noise—whether that's before a board meeting, during a study session, or in those stolen minutes before the house wakes up.

I don't soften hard truths. I illuminate them. And then I let you decide what to do with what you see.

This bowl ships from our Ohio workshop, formed in a single seamless vessel, ready to outlast whatever questions you're carrying now. If you want a companion for honest seeing—I'm here.