Singing Bowl Set: Bowl, Cushion & Mallet

Most people buy a singing bowl the way they buy a guitar without a case or picks: the bowl arrives, and then the second round of shopping starts — a cushion so the rim can vibrate freely, a mallet with a leather head for rim singing. This set skips that round. Every piece is matched to the 8 cm bowl, and it all arrives in one box.

Verified buyers rate the set 4.53 out of 5 across 57 reviews, and 51 of those buyers picked the same engraving (more on that below). Like every bowl in the catalog, it earned its place after Mira Chandran, our sound practitioner, test-played it — strike tone, rim response, sustain, and how it sits on its cushion.

✓ Free US shipping (7–14 business days)   ✓ 30-day money-back guarantee   ✓ Choose from 3 engravings at checkout

What You Get in the Box

The engraved bowl — 8 cm (3.2 in)

Hand-finished brass with hammered texture, the same compact footprint as our solo 8 cm Tibetan singing bowl, with your chosen motif engraved inside the bowl's base. At 8 cm it is a desk-and-nightstand size: small enough to hold in one palm, present enough to give a clear strike tone and a workable rim for singing.

The silk cushion — 8 cm

Sized to the bowl's base. A bowl played flat on a hard table has part of its vibration damped by the surface it touches; the cushion lifts the base, steadies the bowl, and leaves the rim free to ring. It is also simply how a bowl like this is meant to be displayed between sessions.

The dual-head mallet — 12.5 cm (4.9 in)

Hardwood with a leather head on one end. The wood end gives a bright, defined strike; the leather end gives a softer strike and is the end you use to learn rim singing. It is scaled to the 8 cm bowl — compact and easy to control. If you later add a larger bowl, our leather mallets go up to an 18 × 4 cm large head.

Dimensions are taken from the supplier's official dimension diagrams, 2026.

Set or Solo Bowl: Which One Should You Buy?

Two honest notes from that table. First, the solo bowl carries the higher average — 4.9 against the set's 4.53 — partly because an engraved bowl gets judged on finish as well as sound, and the set's two most recent 4-star reviews called out small cosmetic details rather than the tone. Second, rim singing has a learning curve whichever you buy; the set's leather mallet end makes that learning easier than the solo bowl's wooden mallet.

So: if you already own a cushion, or you want the plain hammered bowl at $39.99, go solo and add a leather mallet when you are ready — the small one is $14.99. If you are starting from zero, the set is the cheaper path, because a cushion plus a leather-headed mallet bought separately already costs more than the $10 difference.

What Set Buyers Actually Said

★★★★☆

"I loved the product, it fulfills the required function; but it arrived with some details that can be seen in the photos that do not correspond, that's why I don't give it 5 stars."

— Verified buyer

★★★★☆

"Delivered quickly enough and feels nicely made - but the finish is inconsistent. Sounds nice as a bell, but i've not managed to make it sing yet."

— Verified buyer, United Kingdom

Both critiques are fixable. Cosmetic issues on arrival are covered by our 30-day money-back guarantee — photograph the bowl and contact us, and we make it right. And rim singing genuinely takes a few sessions: slow, steady pressure with the leather end, and let the hum build instead of chasing it. Our singing bowl meditation guide and the step-by-step article on how to use a singing bowl walk through the exact technique.

Photos are unedited and submitted by verified buyers. See the reviews page for the full picture, five-star photos included.

Reviewed and updated July 4, 2026. Read how we test and about Nadam.