Opaque Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 10" B Note | C=528 Tuning | #776

The fog that grounds the crown

🎵 Size: 10" | Note: B | Cents: +37 | Frequency: 253 Hz | Tuning: C=528 Love Tuning | Octave: 3 | A=432 Equivalent: C-26 | Bowl #: 776 ✨ Element: Opaque Quartz 💎 | Body Resonance: Pelvis, hips, legs, sitting bones, lower spine, foundational connection to earth 🦶 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Crown | Cycle of Fifths: Crown 💫

This Opaque Quartz crystal singing bowl sounds in B at 253 Hz, resonating with the crown chakra and grounding through the pelvis, hips, and lower body. Opaque Quartz—pure milky quartz formed from 99.998% quartz crystal—supports nervous system regulation, mental clarity, and gentle protection from overstimulation. Where clear quartz amplifies and broadcasts, this bowl diffuses and settles, creating sanctuary for scattered minds and sensitive systems.

BEST FOR

• Nervous system regulation and deep relaxation
• Executives centering before high-stakes decisions or presentations
• Overstimulated individuals seeking mental fog clearance
• Sound healers supporting clients through burnout or anxiety
• Parents calming anxious children at homework or bedtime
• First responders decompressing after intense shifts
• Creating protective, grounding ambiance in home or office spaces

ESSENCE

I am the veil that clarifies. The cloud that grounds. Where my clear quartz cousins amplify and broadcast, I diffuse and protect—scattering light into softness, muting sharp edges, creating sanctuary. You don't come to me for answers. You come when you need the question to quiet down. Let me stand between you and the chaos for a while.

THE ELEMENT

Opaque quartz, commonly known as milky quartz, is pure silicon dioxide—the same composition as clear quartz, but with microscopic inclusions of water and air dispersed throughout its crystalline structure. These inclusions scatter light, creating the characteristic soft, luminous appearance that resembles fog settling over a valley at dawn. Found abundantly in continental crust worldwide, milky quartz forms in silica-rich igneous rocks, hydrothermal veins, and mountain deposits from the Alps to Australian sedimentary basins.

In Divine Bowls' proprietary formation process, the opaque quality emerges during creation—not applied afterward. Developed over decades for industrial applications where thermal properties mattered at the molecular level, this process follows nature's lead: some quartz wants to be clear, some wants that milky softness. The result is a microstructure that becomes part of what vibrates when the bowl sings, producing resonance patterns distinct from any other instrument.

Traditions across cultures have revered milky quartz for its protective, grounding qualities. Australian Aboriginal communities use quartz in ceremonies connecting with Dreamtime ancestors. Tibetan Buddhists incorporate it in prayer wheels for its amplifying yet gentle vibrations. Where clear quartz is the master amplifier, opaque quartz is the soft shield—creating a buffer that allows you to stay open without absorbing everything around you. When you work with this bowl, you're invited into the space between clarity and confusion, where your own wisdom can surface because the external noise has dimmed.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in B at 253 Hz, resonating with the crown chakra in the Western diatonic system. The B frequency carries the energetic quality of spirituality, connection, and unity—the highest note in the diatonic scale, associated with access to intuition and expanded awareness. Yet at Octave 3, this frequency vibrates through your lower body—pelvis, hips, legs, and foundational structure.

This creates a fascinating paradox: crown consciousness grounded into your physical base. When opaque quartz's diffusing, protective quality meets this "roots to crown" frequency, the experience is transcendence that anchors rather than floats away. People often describe this bowl's tone as enveloping rather than piercing—a sustained hum that wraps around you like being held.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 253 Hz. Using A=440 as reference, it plays B+37 cents. (Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is C-26 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 adds a heart-opening, transformational quality to the bowl's already spiritually-aligned B note essence. The slightly elevated pitch creates an uplifting resonance that many find clarifying, even as the opaque quartz element keeps everything grounded and gentle.

(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 Octave 3 tones with very long sustain—meaning a single strike continues resonating for extended periods, allowing sound to build and layer without constant playing. The deep, penetrating volume fills large spaces naturally, making it ideal for group settings, ceremonial use, living rooms, or open-plan offices. Yet it's equally powerful for personal practice, where that sustained resonance creates immersive experience without effort.

This size allows opaque quartz's protective, diffusing quality to express with full presence—the milky softness becomes a room-sized sanctuary. The Octave 3 resonance naturally targets your foundational body zone, grounding spiritual frequencies into physical form. Whether you're opening a team meeting, settling a classroom after recess, or creating evening calm at home, this bowl's combination of size and element delivers gentle authority.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you feel scattered across too many demands, when your mind loops without resolution, or when you've lost the boundary between your energy and everyone else's. It serves beautifully at transitions—between work and home, between giving care and receiving rest, between the chaos of day and the quiet of evening.

To begin, simply strike the bowl once and breathe. No technique required. Let the sustained tone wash over you while you notice where tension lives in your body. The sound doesn't demand anything—it creates conditions for your nervous system to remember what settling feels like. Try placing the bowl on the floor near your feet to emphasize its grounding quality, or at heart level when you need that protective buffer. Parents find this bowl particularly effective for calming anxious children—the soft, enveloping tone feels safe rather than stimulating. Executives use it before presentations to quiet mental chatter. First responders play it after shifts to discharge accumulated intensity. There's no wrong way to work with this bowl. Let it meet you where you are.

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

 Not every bowl holds attention through specifications and frequencies. This one did—maybe because opaque quartz doesn't demand. It diffuses. It creates the fog that lets you stop squinting at everything so hard.

This is a bowl for the overstimulated. For the person who gives more than they guard. For the 5am kitchen before anyone needs anything from you, or the office door closed for three minutes between meetings. It won't pierce or push. It settles—and waits for you to remember what settling feels like.

 No rush. It's not going anywhere.