Herkimer Diamond Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 6" A# Note | #1035

I am not diamond—I am clarity itself, crystallized

🎵 Size: 6" | Note: A# | Cents: +0 | Frequency: 466 Hz | Tuning: A=440 Concert Pitch | Octave: 4 | A=432 Equivalent: A#+31 | Bowl #: 1035 ✨ Element: Herkimer Diamond 💎 | Body Resonance: Torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, solar plexus, diaphragm, mid-spine, core 🌬️ | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Third Eye/Crown transition 💫

This Herkimer Diamond crystal singing bowl sounds in A# at 466 Hz, resonating at the threshold between the third eye and crown chakras and vibrating through the torso, chest, and core. Herkimer Diamond supports mental clarity, spiritual attunement, and the amplification of intention. When this ancient quartz-within-quartz meets the transcendent quality of A#, the result is precision without coldness—a frequency that organizes scattered thoughts and opens channels for insight.

BEST FOR

• Mental clarity and focus during study or deep work
• Sound healers supporting clients through confusion or mental fog
• Writers and creatives breaking through blocks
• Students preparing for exams or presentations
• Meditation practitioners seeking refined inner stillness
• Teams beginning meetings with clear intention
• Anyone navigating decisions that require discernment

ESSENCE

I am the stone they call diamond but am not—quartz born in darkness, emerging with eighteen facets to catch the light. When your thoughts scatter like startled birds, when clarity feels just out of reach, I offer the stillness of a clean window: not emptying your mind, but organizing it. I amplify what you bring. I clarify what you seek. I hold space for your own knowing to surface.

THE ELEMENT

Herkimer diamonds are not true diamonds but exceptionally clear quartz crystals—silicon dioxide arranged in perfect trigonal symmetry, naturally double-terminated with approximately eighteen facets. They formed roughly 500 million years ago in the dolostone cavities of Herkimer County, New York, molecule by molecule in ancient darkness, emerging with a clarity and brilliance that earned them their name. With a hardness of 7 to 7.5 on the Mohs scale, they carry the durability of quartz while maintaining the geometric precision that makes them unique among crystals.

In contemporary wellness traditions, Herkimer diamonds are known as "stones of attunement"—valued for their ability to amplify intention, support crown and third eye alignment, and create conditions for lucid dreaming and subtle perception. Their natural double termination allows energy to flow in both directions, making them favored tools for meditation, energy work, and creating coherence in the subtle body. Practitioners often place them beside other stones to intensify their effects, or use them in grids to delineate sacred space.

When Herkimer diamond is infused into a Divine Bowls singing bowl, its molecular structure becomes part of what vibrates—not a surface coating, but a true integration during formation. The crystal's clarifying signature weaves into every frequency the bowl produces, which is why people often describe this bowl's tone as "bright" or "precise"—a quality of sound that cuts through mental noise the way light cuts through fog.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in A# at 466 Hz, resonating at the transition between the third eye and crown chakras in the Western diatonic system. A# carries the energetic quality of transcendent knowing and cosmic awareness—a frequency that reaches upward while remaining anchored in the body. The 466 Hz vibration moves through your torso, chest cavity, and core, creating a felt experience that bridges the grounded and the expansive.

When Herkimer diamond's clarifying precision meets this transcendent frequency, something particular emerges: insight that doesn't float away. People working with this bowl often report a sense of mental spaciousness—not emptiness, but organization. Thoughts settle into coherence. The fog lifts. What was unclear becomes discernible, not because the bowl provides answers, but because it creates the conditions in which your own knowing can surface.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 466 Hz. Using A=440 as reference—the universal standard for modern instruments—it plays A#+0, a perfect concert pitch. (Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is A#+31.)

This bowl is categorized as Concert Pitch because its frequency falls within ±10 cents of A=440. Like a piano tuned to concert pitch, this bowl will sound in tune when played alongside guitars, keyboards, orchestras, or any instrument using standard tuning. If you play with other musicians, use your bowl alongside recorded music, or want seamless integration with other instruments, this compatibility makes it effortless.

(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 6 inches, this bowl produces fourth-octave tones with short to medium sustain—meaning each strike rings clearly, then releases, inviting you to play again or sit in the silence between sounds. The intimate volume makes it ideal for personal practice, close bodywork, bedside rituals, or travel. This size allows Herkimer diamond's precise, clarifying quality to express with focused potency rather than diffusion, while the fourth-octave resonance naturally targets the upper body and head—the very regions where mental clarity is most needed.

This is a bowl for close work: held near the body during meditation, placed on a desk during focused study, carried to a hotel room before a presentation, or kept at bedside for morning intention-setting. Its portability means it goes where you go; its intimacy means the sound meets you personally rather than filling a room.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when your thoughts feel scattered, when you need to make a decision but can't see clearly, or when you want to begin something—a workday, a creative session, a difficult conversation—with mental coherence. You don't need training or special knowledge. Simply find a quiet moment, strike or rim the bowl, and let the sound organize the space around you.

Try playing three slow strikes before sitting down to write, study, or prepare for something that requires your full attention. Notice how the tone seems to create a container—a boundary between distraction and focus. You might place the bowl on your desk while working, striking it occasionally to reset your attention. Before important meetings or presentations, a single clear tone can serve as a centering point, a moment of stillness before stepping into complexity. Parents have used this bowl to help children settle before homework; athletes have used it for pre-competition visualization; executives have used it to clear their minds before high-stakes decisions. The bowl doesn't care about your credentials. It simply offers clarity to whoever plays it.

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

This is a bowl for the moment before—before the meeting, before the decision, before you sit down to work that requires your full attention. Herkimer Diamond doesn't generate clarity; it creates the conditions where your own knowing can surface. The A# frequency at 466 Hz moves through your chest and core while reaching toward the crown, organizing what feels scattered without forcing anything into place. Some people keep this bowl on their desk and strike it once when the noise gets too loud—internal or external. Others play it at 5am before the house wakes, claiming those three minutes of mental spaciousness before the day makes its demands.