Opaque Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 6.5" B Note (-12) | Grounding Frequencies | #753

The clarity that settles like snow

🎵 Size: 6.5" | Note: B | Cents: -12 | Frequency: 491 Hz | Tuning: Grounding Frequencies | Octave: 4 | Bowl #: 753 ✨ Element: Opaque Quartz 💎 | Body Resonance: Head, throat, sinuses, skull, cervical spine, brain cavity, upper energetic field 👁️ | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Crown | Cycle of Fifths: Crown 💫

This opaque quartz crystal singing bowl sounds in B at 491 Hz, resonating with the crown chakra and the head, throat, and upper energetic field. Opaque quartz supports mental clarity and grounded spiritual connection. When crown frequency meets quartz's gentle light-scattering nature, the experience is transcendence that settles through the body rather than floating above it.

BEST FOR

• Crown chakra work seeking grounded spiritual connection
• Meditation practice when thoughts won't stop spinning
• Teachers and facilitators holding space for others
• Overwhelmed nervous systems needing gentle settling
• Sound baths focused on integration rather than intensity
• Those told they're "too sensitive" learning to work with it

ESSENCE

I am the light that learned to hold itself gently. Where clarity often arrives as sharp insight, I offer diffusion—truth spreading slowly like dawn milk across a winter sky. When you've been scattered across too many demands, when spiritual concepts float beautifully but won't land, I create the conditions for settling. This bowl invites you to trust slowness, to let wisdom accumulate rather than strike.

THE ELEMENT

Opaque quartz is pure silicon dioxide—the same ancient mineral that tooled humanity's first edges and carried pharaohs into the afterlife. What distinguishes this form is its internal structure: microscopic air bubbles, typically 18.3 micrometers in diameter, distributed evenly throughout the crystal at approximately 54 per square millimeter. These inclusions create Mie scattering, the same phenomenon that makes milk and snow appear white. Light enters but doesn't pass straight through. It diffuses.

This milky luminosity isn't a coating or treatment. Divine Bowls developed this opaque formation process in the 1990s for semiconductor engineering, where thermal stability under extreme conditions was essential. The same properties that make it invaluable for high-heat industrial applications—structural integrity, even energy distribution, resilience under stress—translate into sound work as steady, enveloping resonance.

Indigenous Australian healers have long revered quartz as "maban" stones for channeling vibrational energy. Tibetan Buddhist traditions use it to amplify pure intention during meditation. Ayurvedic practice views quartz as a shakti stone for purifying life force. Across cultures and millennia, this mineral has served as amplifier, clarifier, and steady witness. The opaque form adds something particular: gentleness. Users consistently describe its tone as warmer, more enveloping—sound that wraps rather than pierces.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in B at 491 Hz, resonating with the crown chakra in the Western diatonic system. The B frequency carries the energetic quality of spirituality, connection, and unity, vibrating through your head, throat, sinuses, and upper energetic field. At -12 cents, this bowl sits in the grounding range—just below concert pitch—producing a warmer, more organic quality with settling energy.

When opaque quartz's diffusing nature meets this crown frequency, something interesting happens. Rather than the sharp clarity often associated with spiritual awakening, you get integration. The scattered light of the quartz mirrors how this frequency works: not blasting you into transcendence, but making the ethereal livable. People report that mental chatter settles, that insights land in the body rather than spinning in the mind. The 6.5-inch size produces intimate volume with short to medium sustain—ideal for personal practice or small group work where presence matters more than projection.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 491 Hz, placing it in our Grounding range—its frequency sits below concert pitch, producing a warmer, more organic quality with a gentle settling energy.

Grounding bowls like this one are good for deep relaxation, meditation, and foundational work. Many people find frequencies in this range feel easier on the nervous system, with a quality that settles into the body rather than floating above it. The tone invites you down rather than pulling you up.

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 6.5 inches, this bowl produces fourth-octave tones with short to medium sustain—meaning the sound blooms quickly and fades gracefully, inviting repeated playing rather than long meditation on a single strike. The intimate-to-balanced volume fills a room without overwhelming it, making this size ideal for bedside rituals, therapy offices, yoga studios, classroom transitions, or the corner of a home office where you need three minutes of reset between calls. Portable enough to travel, substantial enough to anchor a space. This size allows opaque quartz's gentle diffusing quality to express with focused warmth, while the fourth-octave resonance naturally targets the upper-mid body—chest, shoulders, and the base of the throat where tension accumulates.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when your mind won't stop cataloging. When you've absorbed too much from too many directions and need something to help it settle. Play it at the start of your morning before screens claim your attention, or at the end of a workday to mark the transition home. Teachers find a single tone useful for signaling focus time or easing students back from recess. Parents report it works beautifully for homework transitions or bedtime wind-down—children respond to the sound without needing explanation.

You don't need technique to begin. Simply strike the bowl with the mallet and listen. Notice where the sound seems to land in your body. Notice what happens to your breathing. Some people prefer to let the tone fade completely before striking again; others enjoy a continuous hum created by circling the mallet around the rim. There's no wrong approach. The bowl responds to presence, not expertise. Over time, you'll develop your own relationship with it—your own rituals, your own timing, your own way of knowing when you've had enough.

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 99.998% pure quartz—no welds, no weak points—built to last lifetimes of use.

INVITATION

Some bowls arrive announcing themselves. This one settles into the room like morning fog—present before you notice, gone only when you realize how much clearer everything looks.

Opaque quartz doesn't demand your spiritual credentials or ask what you're hoping to heal. It offers what it's always offered: steady presence, gentle diffusion, the kind of clarity that accumulates rather than strikes. The milky luminosity scatters light the way this frequency scatters mental chatter—not by force, but by patient redistribution.