Current Stock

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Melody Bowls with 12 strings are amongst the most satisfying to play. The good range of notes in sequential order mades it easy for a singer to pick out her accompaniment. Cherry with this shallow design gives a very bright sound with plenty of volume. Number 251 is made from wet wood and as she dries, is moving, day by day into the graceful curves that add so much to the perfect roundness of turned work. Due to complete this in the autumn she already has a wonderful tone. Stringing bowls before all the sap has dried out seems to add a certain depth and richness to their tone. This one promises to be very good indeed. No need to wait for it to dry, buy now, cased, at £1996

Walnut is such a beautiful wood. This tree blew down in a nearby garden in 2003 and has made several Sounding Bowls. This is the last and unusual in having eight strings. Designed for a Hungarian pentatonic tuning it can also be tuned to the Hebridean pentatonic or a modern scale or mode. A real collectors piece, this one also has an excellent tone, somewhat like it’s colour, Walnut has a dark and rich tone tone. £1408 complete with hard case.

A three string Hermetic Bowl in Cherry this piece has a delghtfully light feel to it, the wieght, wood, sound and design all combine to add bright sweetness to it’s nature. Cherry is one of the most feminine of woods being traditionally related to moon and venus. At just under 9 inches even the price is light at £392

234 is a classic Meditation Bowl in rippled Ash. The tone is warm and enfolding in it’s quiet, meditative way. The pegs are scorched Ash, giving a texture and blackness to the wood that contrasts well with the main body. One might consider tempering of the soul through the fire of experience as a relevant image. About 11” across, £752

237 is from that local Ash tree with the rare ripple in the grain. This Bridging Bowl has a very rich tone for it’s size, about 14”. The ‘berry’ pegs are yellow and black by nature not staining with the yellow ones coming as pallet wood transporting eco-coffins from the weavers in Sri-Lanka to a warehouse in Devon and the black ones as offcuts of Macassar Ebony from another workshop nearby. £1789

This is the largest Sounding Bowl I have made, 29” across. The portrait image shows scale. Three full octaves is a lot of notes, way down to a low C” with a very ‘bassy’ timbre. A professional musician who played this in the workshop for half on hour in April found it enveloped him in a rich dream-space. No.240 is Sycamore with a wonderful flare from the fork of the tree and two places in which the outside shape of the tree dipped down through the bowl leaving natural edge holes, the larger big enough for a thumb to pass through. Cased in a wine red hard case complete with carrying strap as well as the normal handle this Bridging pattern Sounding Bowl is £3427

From the same Sycamore tree as 240 is this large Lyre Bowl, No 241. 17 strings gives it two octaves and two notes, allowing a wide range of modes and scales. The deepest note, F’ is rich and the whole tone of the bowl is warm and it’s low profile makes it open and giving in tone. £2686

Number 202 is from a remarkable local Ash tree that fell from the edge of a small quarry on a local farm. This area is rich in such small quarries, often so small that one wonders whether more was made from it than the house nearby. The ripple in the grain is visually as strong as the growth rings, a VERY rare feature. It's nine strings are tuned to from E - f, higher than usual 9 string Lyre Bowls due to it's small size, 31cm (about 12 inches) across. The smaller size also makes it less expensive at £1477 including hard case.

Number 211 is from the same tree. Made when wet and from a stress area of the tree it is warped well out of round. Tuning is pentatonic. Price is standard at £1193 including hard case.

Number 194, tuned in C major, or any scale running through C has a bright and warm tone typical of the local sycamore also used in 218 below. Nine strings gives you a full diatonic scale plus the extra note so useful for stepping outside the octave and completing the song. £1582 includes the made to measure hard case.

The Suni Harp prototype was developed for New York glass artist and harpist, Ulla Darni on images she received from a spirit guide. Apparently there was a Tibetan musician called ‘Suni’ living in Japan around 350 years ago whose reputation as a performer rested in a small way on the instrument she played. According to the images and descriptions of Ulla’s guide the instrument was very like this one.

Personally I prefer to believe that this stringing pattern is unique in musical history but there is no documentary evidence for or against this, or the existence of Suni so far. We would both be interested if anyone has anything to offer.

In the meantime I made this 18 string “Suni Harp” as a prototype for the 24 string version I made for Ulla. This one is made from Sycamore. 19” x 9” x 3” The tone is remarkably bright, full and harmonious for such a small instrument, having a quality that charms listeners. 18inches long by 9 inches wide by 3 deep. £1220 including case and tuning key.