Trace Minerals Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 10" A Note | #1698

I don't create the light—I show you what's already there

🎵 Size: 10" | Note: A | Cents: +45 | Frequency: 227 Hz | Tuning: Uplift Tuning | Octave: 3 | A=432 Equivalent: A#-15 | Bowl #: 1698 ✨ Element: Trace Minerals 🪨 | Body Resonance: Pelvis, hips, legs, sitting bones, lower spine, foundational connection to earth 🦶 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Third Eye | Cycle of Fifths: Throat 💫

This Trace Minerals crystal singing bowl sounds in A at 227 Hz, resonating with the third eye chakra and the deep body—pelvis, hips, and foundational connection to earth. Trace minerals support mental clarity, amplified intention, and the kind of focus that cuts through scattered thinking. When the intuitive frequency of the third eye meets quartz enhanced with earth's subtle mineral signatures, the result is precision without rigidity—a clear channel for whatever you bring to the experience.

BEST FOR

• Mental clarity and focused concentration during study or deep work
• Sound healers seeking a versatile, amplifying foundation bowl
• Students preparing for exams or navigating demanding coursework
• Executives centering before presentations or strategic decisions
• Teachers creating focused, attentive classroom environments
• Anyone seeking to cut through mental fog and scattered thinking
• Meditation practitioners deepening awareness and insight

ESSENCE

I am the clarifier. I don't create the light—I let it pass through, unchanged but somehow more itself. When you've been scattered across a thousand tabs, a thousand obligations, a thousand half-finished thoughts, I am the frequency that says: look directly at what's here. Bring me your intention, and I'll hold it steady. Bring me confusion, and I'll show you its exact shape so you can work with it. This is not cruelty. This is clarity.

THE ELEMENT

Quartz crystal is silicon dioxide—46% silicon, 54% oxygen—with each molecule formed by four oxygen atoms surrounding one silicon atom in a tetrahedral embrace. This geometry repeats in spiraling chains throughout the crystal's structure, creating the six-sided prisms and steep terminations that have made quartz recognizable across fifteen millennia of human use. With a hardness of 7 on the Mohs scale and a vitreous luster, quartz comprises 12% of Earth's crust, forming in igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock from hydrothermal veins to massive deposits worldwide.

The trace minerals in this bowl add subtle variations to the quartz lattice—microscopic signatures that become part of what vibrates when the bowl sings. During Divine Bowls' proprietary formation process, these minerals integrate at the molecular level, creating a unique microstructure within the quartz itself. This isn't a surface coating; it's a fundamental change in the crystal's architecture, producing resonance patterns you won't hear from any other instrument.

For over fifteen thousand years, humans have reached for quartz when they needed tools that endure and intentions that amplify. Paleolithic peoples shaped it into cutting edges. Egyptian artisans carved it into scarabs. Tibetan Buddhists struck it into song. The same piezoelectric property that powers modern oscillators and timepieces—electricity generated from mechanical stress, discovered by the Curie brothers in 1880—supports the vibrational applications that practitioners report today. When you work with this bowl, you're working with a material that bridges the practical and the sacred, the ancient and the precise.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in A at 227 Hz, resonating with the third eye chakra in the Western diatonic system. The A frequency carries the energetic quality of intuition, wisdom, and vision—the capacity to see clearly, to perceive what lies beneath surface appearances. This third-octave tone vibrates through your deep body, settling into the pelvis, hips, and foundational structures while simultaneously opening the channels of insight.

When quartz's amplifying nature meets the third eye frequency, something particular happens: the bowl doesn't tell you what to see. It clears the lens. People often describe this combination as creating spaciousness in the mind—not emptiness, but room to perceive without the usual static. The low octave grounds this clarity in the body rather than letting it float away into abstraction.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 227 Hz. Using A=440 as reference, it plays A+45 cents. Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is A#-15 cents.

This bowl is categorized as Uplift Tuning because its frequency falls above the C=528 range, producing a brighter, more energizing quality. These frequencies have an awakening character—sounds that enliven rather than sedate. The slightly elevated pitch creates a clarifying resonance valued for cutting through mental fog, stimulating focused attention, and bringing fresh energy to states that have become stuck or scattered. If you're seeking a bowl that sharpens rather than softens, that activates rather than sedates, this tuning delivers that quality.

(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—meaning once struck, the sound continues to develop and evolve for an extended period, allowing you to settle into the frequency rather than chasing it. The deep, penetrating volume fills large spaces easily, making it ideal for group settings, ceremonial work, or any room where you want the sound to reach everyone present.

This size works beautifully in yoga studios and meditation halls, but equally well in conference rooms before important meetings, classrooms during transition times, or living rooms where the whole family gathers. The substantial presence of a 10-inch bowl commands attention without demanding it. Quartz's amplifying quality expresses fully at this size—there's enough mass for the crystal's properties to develop completely, producing rich harmonics and that characteristic "breathing" quality people notice in well-made instruments.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you need to think clearly. Before studying for an exam. At the start of a workday when your to-do list feels overwhelming. When you're preparing for a conversation that matters. When the mental chatter won't quiet and you need something to cut through.

Place the bowl on its O-ring on a stable surface—a desk, a table, the floor in front of you. Strike it once with the mallet and let the sound develop. Notice how the tone seems to expand and then settle. As it sustains, bring your attention to whatever needs clarity. You don't need to force focus; the frequency creates conditions for it. Some people find it helpful to state an intention or question silently as the bowl sounds. Others simply let the vibration do its work on the scattered mind.

This bowl pairs naturally with study sessions, pre-meeting centering, creative work that requires sustained attention, or any moment when you need your full mental capacity available. Teachers use bowls like this to signal transitions and invite focus. Athletes use them during visualization. Writers strike them to break through blocks. The application is as varied as the people who work with sound.

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

You've read about amplification, about clarity, about the third eye meeting the deep body. You know the specifications. But here's what the description can't tell you: what it feels like the first time you strike this bowl before an exam you've been dreading, and the scattered panic in your chest suddenly has edges you can work with. Or the morning you play it in your kitchen before anyone else wakes, and for three sustained minutes, you remember what your own mind sounds like when it's not performing for anyone.

This bowl doesn't care if you've never touched a singing bowl before or if you have seventeen of them. It doesn't ask about your credentials or your spiritual vocabulary. It asks: Do you need to think clearly? Do you have something that matters and a mind that won't settle long enough to meet it?

Quartz amplifies what you bring. Trace minerals ground that amplification in earth's subtle intelligence. The A frequency opens the channel. What you do with that clarity—the presentation, the creative project, the conversation with your teenager, the decision you've been avoiding—that's entirely yours.

Not every bowl finds every person. But if you're still here, reading about precision and spaciousness and the kind of focus that cuts through fog, maybe this one found you.