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Hand Hammered Gongs

Gongs are a traditional nepalese and tibetan instrument used since from the ancinet times for meditation in buddhist monasteries, religious events ,ceremonial and rituals within the tibetan and nepalese buddhist community. There are various types of gongs produced in Nepal, Tibet, China, India and their designs, structure and shape are very different but theie use is almost same.
Nepalese gongs are genuinely handmade gongs popular worldwide and we categories nepalese gongs in two types
1. A Gong - with plain outer surface, 2. B Gong - with central (portion of hitting part) outset/hammered outgraved or outwardly ball type and other part smooth surface. These gongs can be plain type, colored or carved type depending on cleint's choice.
These gongs are used for meditation, sound therapy and space clearing tools for superior harmonic sound balance. The use of gongs are used to clear the mind from turbulent clouds of thought, call us to practice our religion or spiritual path for thousands of years. Gongs are also used to awaken us spiritually, as a call to prayer, and to assist us in becoming present to our better selves by producing space clearing pure rimming sound when hit or struck by wooden gong mallet or hammer (made of rosewood handle and harder compressed wool head - hitting part) in the middle or in the sweet spot, between the middle and the edge of the gong.
The gongs are also used as a means of communication to make people aware of some happenings of relogious events, ceromonies etc. We manufacture handmade gongs in a wide varieties with various metal content, dimensions, patterns, designs and craftings. The sound will be different from each gongs according to the metal content ro composition used for making the gongs.