Singing Bowl Market

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Tibetan Bowl Market

In June 2004, John Mead came to The Strawbale Studio with hundreds of bowls he'd just brought back from the Himalayas, which we set up for a Bowl Market. The floor was covered with heavy metals for us happy shoppers to peruse - what a choice! We spent a long time matching pitches to ensure that any we bought were in tune with each other, in case we ever get together as a Bowl Choir. I eventually bought eight more tiny gems and a medium-large bowl, as well as a gong...

`Warning: Tibetan Bowls have a strong tendency to breed...`

A week later, I spent the Summer Solstice at John's house, playing and choosing between another few hundred bowls on his lawn as the sun set... a long day indeed, ending in the middle of the night when I left with a further nineteen!

So, my bowl collecting started with just one (1=1*1) bowl, then I got four more (4=2*2), then nine more (9=3*3), but then went overboard and got nineteen (should have been 16=4*4). To make amends, I later sold four, and am now looking for The Big One, a huge deep bass UFO in E...

[UPDATE: I, erm, subsequently acquired a few more for my collection... ;-]