Mastery Book Example
Mastery Book Example
Mastery Book Example
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Emile de Leon
The Mastery Book of Himalayan Singing Bowls. Copyright © 2012 by Emile
de Leon. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced
in any manner whatsoever, including internet usage, without written
permission from Temple Sounds Publishing except in the case of brief
quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
First Edition
First Printing, 2012
de Leon, Emile.
The Mastery book of Himalayan singing bowls : a musical , spiritual , and
healing perspective / by Emile de Leon.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-9882661-0-0
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Introduction Page 1
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There is not much debate in the fact that the best quality
antiques will always trump newly made bowls no matter how
well they are constructed or how good they sound. However, it
is also good to remember that some of the newer bowls can rise
to excellence too and should not be discounted as a viable option
for a good sound experience. Some of these modern bowls are
in fact quite surprising how well they play, yet just like the
antiques, only a small percentage of these will rise to the grade
of A quality. As a rough estimate only about one to five percent
of the antiques will sound excellent while about ten to twenty
percent of the new bowls will sound really good. There is
definitely a certain special something in the good antique bowls
that is glaringly absent in the newer ones though. It could be the
gold and silver, or the years of ageing, or the smelting and
hammering, but you can definitely hear it in the warmth and tone
of the older versus the newer. The best older bowls contain a
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The Mastery Book of Himalayan Singing Bowls
A Musical, Spiritual and Healing Perspective
By Emile de Leon
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