Opaque Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 12" G Note | #884

The frequency that asks nothing but your presence

🎵 Size: 12" | Note: G | Cents: -44 | Frequency: 382 Hz | Tuning: Grounding Tuning | Octave: 3 | A=432 Equivalent: G-14 | Bowl #: 884 ✨ 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 opaque quartz crystal singing bowl sounds in G at 382 Hz, resonating with the throat chakra and the core of the body—chest, lungs, diaphragm, and mid-spine. Opaque quartz is pure crystal in its most nurturing form, supporting deep rest, nervous system regulation, and gentle integration. At twelve inches, this bowl produces foundational tones with exceptional sustain, creating an enveloping sound field that settles the body before the mind can catch up.

BEST FOR

• Deep relaxation and nervous system regulation
• Executives and leaders centering before high-stakes decisions
• Students seeking calm focus for exams and deep study
• Sound healers supporting clients through burnout or overstimulation
• Parents creating bedtime calm for restless children
• Athletes recovering after competition or intense training
• Anyone navigating grief, transition, or emotional overwhelm

ESSENCE

I am the bowl that asks nothing of you but your presence. Where others might push toward breakthrough, I offer something quieter—the permission to land, to stop performing your healing, to let sound do the labor while you simply receive. I am milky quartz, the mother stone, and my clouds are not flaws but ancient water and gas held in my lattice for millions of years. I know what it is to carry pressure and transform it into structure. I understand your body's need to do the same.

THE ELEMENT

Opaque quartz—also called milky quartz—is silicon dioxide in its most nurturing expression. The soft, luminous appearance comes from countless microscopic inclusions of fluid and gas trapped within the crystal lattice during formation, scattering light the way morning fog softens a landscape. This is not a coating or treatment; it's the stone's authentic nature, formed over geological time.

Quartz has accompanied humans since we first needed tools that endured. Its hardness, stability, and resistance to chemical breakdown made it essential for survival, then for timekeeping, then for the precise oscillators that power modern technology. The same piezoelectric properties that make quartz indispensable in electronics—its ability to convert mechanical stress into electrical charge and back again—make it extraordinary for sound. Structure, vibration, and frequency are woven into its molecular identity.

When Divine Bowls forms opaque quartz into a singing bowl, the microscopic inclusions that create that milky softness become part of what vibrates. The result is a tone people consistently describe as warmer, more enveloping, more forgiving than clear quartz. Where clear quartz can feel like bright sunlight, opaque quartz feels like dawn—gradual, complete, gentle on systems that have been overstimulated. Traditions across cultures have associated quartz with clarity and amplification; milky quartz adds a maternal quality, a sense of being held rather than pushed.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in G at 382 Hz, resonating with the throat chakra in the Western diatonic system. The G frequency carries the energetic quality of expression, communication, and truth—the voice finding its way out of the body. At 382 Hz, this tone vibrates through the torso, chest cavity, and core, creating physical resonance you can feel in your lungs and diaphragm.

When opaque quartz's grounding, nurturing quality meets the throat chakra's invitation to speak and be heard, something interesting happens. The combination doesn't push expression outward so much as it creates safety for expression to emerge. People often report that this bowl helps them access what they actually feel—not the performed version, but the quieter truth underneath. The frequency moves through the body's core while the element softens the edges, making it easier to stay present with whatever arises.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 382 Hz. Using A=440 as reference, it plays G-44 cents. Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is G-14 cents.

This bowl is categorized as Grounding Tuning because its frequency falls below the A=432 range, producing an even deeper, more anchoring quality. These frequencies have an inward-drawing character—sounds that settle rather than stimulate. The slightly flattened pitch creates a quality some describe as "heavier" or "more rooted," making this bowl particularly effective for calming active minds, helping children settle, supporting those who live in their heads, or anyone who needs profound grounding before they can access anything else.

(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 twelve inches, this bowl produces third-octave tones with very long sustain—meaning one strike continues resonating for an extended period, filling space without requiring constant attention. The deep, penetrating volume makes it ideal for larger rooms, group settings, or ceremonial contexts, but it works equally well in a living room, a therapy office, or a classroom during transition time.

This size allows opaque quartz's enveloping quality to express fully. The lower octave naturally targets the body's core—chest, lungs, solar plexus—creating physical sensation that bypasses mental analysis. You don't have to believe anything for your diaphragm to respond to 382 Hz. The bowl simply meets your body where it is.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you've been scattered across too many obligations, when your nervous system hums like an overtightened wire, when you need to come down before you can move forward. It's equally useful at the end of a workday, before a difficult conversation, after receiving hard news, or simply when the house finally quiets and you want three minutes of beauty before sleep.

To begin, place the bowl on its O-ring on any stable surface. Strike the rim once with the mallet and let the tone expand. You don't need to do anything else. Breathe normally. Notice where you feel the sound in your body—many people sense it in the chest or belly first. If your mind wanders, that's fine. The frequency continues working whether you're paying attention or not. For longer sessions, you can circle the rim with the mallet to build a continuous tone, or simply strike again when the sound fades. There's no wrong way to do this.

Teachers use this bowl to signal transitions or create focus before tests. Coaches play it during team visualization. Therapists sound it between clients to clear the room and reset their own nervous systems. Parents find it settles children faster than words. The application matters less than the willingness to pause.

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

Some sounds don't ask anything of you. This one simply offers what opaque quartz has always offered—the patience of stone that watched mountains rise, the softness of ancient water still held in crystal. It's a bowl for the moment after the last email, the breath before the difficult conversation, the quiet you steal while the house still sleeps. Whether you're a sound healer building your collection or someone who just wants three minutes of beauty before bed, the invitation is the same: you can stop now. This bowl ships from our Ohio workshop whenever you're ready—or it stays here, unhurried, until you are.