This is a 27 Inch Hand-Engraved Nepali Temple Gong One of a Kind

Nepali temple gongs are hand-hammered in the Kathmandu Valley by bronze craftsmen specialists. 

This one is 27 inches across, hammered from a bronze in the bell-metal family, patinated dark, and finished with a full iconography that is unique to this one gong. 

The lotus flower is the central motif of this instrument, with the Om symbol hovering above the flower. A Kathmandu Valley stupa is featured at the top. A pair of golden fish swim in from below, and vases repeat at the top, bottom, left and right exterior. 

The tone here is an E3 carried on a deep B1 nearly two octaves beneath it.

Played with a soft mallet it builds slowly and opens to a long decay, with shimmer that comes from close partial pairs beating against each other roughly every second and a half.

The character is dark rather than bright.

Playing will favored a rolled crescendo and it rewards a single clean strike. It sounds like a different instrument depending on how you choose to play it. 

At The Ohm Store every instrument is selected as a resonator first and a visual object second.

There is only one gong available like this, and you're receiving the exact gong that's pictured and recorded here. 

This gong does not include a gong stand.