Klangfarben Tubular Chimes with Lydia Hwang
San Francisco-based sound practitioner Lydia Hwang recently gave our Monochord Monday Meetup Zoom group a special treat by demonstrating how she layers the Monolina Monochords with the Klangfarben Hanging Chimes. She also joined us for an Instagram Live interview on @weplaywelltogether, where she shared her story of how she came to work with sound after being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. Watch a short video of Lydia playing the Klangfarben healing chimes on our YouTube Channel:
Following her autoimmune disease diagnosis in 2004, Lydia launched a dedicated pursuit of self-healing in the US and abroad. She began at the Tama-Do Academy, studying under pioneering leader Fabien Maman, regarded as the founding father of vibrational sound therapy.
After solidifying her foundational studies, she teamed up with master chime builder Wolfgang Dienert to hone her professional craft and develop her unique skill set. Her refined understanding of sound frequencies and resonance can be heard when she plays Dienert's chimes alongside the monochord table and Tibetan bowls. In 2016, Lydia became certified as an Aura-Soma practitioner — a system of color, plant, and crystal energies that illuminate one's true colors and support transformation, balance, harmony, and vitality.
Today, Lydia alchemizes sound and color into a uniquely powerful healing practice called "Color Soul" intuitive readings. Beyond her private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area, she leads color and sound workshops, serves as a guest sound healer at Ratna Ling retreat center, and co-facilitates yoga and sound events. Musically, she is one of the founding members of Savasana Sound, performing group concerts, sound journeys, and recorded albums.
Learn more about Lydia and Aspira Sound
Wolfgang Deinert created Klangfarben in 1989 in Germany and has been handcrafting precision bell chimes and tubular gongs ever since. These instruments open up a new level of working with sound, made with high-quality brass for exceptional resonance and clarity.
The precision tuning of each set is completed in a single session so the chimes stay in tune together. Because metal changes with temperature, the tuning process is critical — after which each gong chime is finished by hand polishing.
We Play Well Together is the exclusive North American distributor for Klangfarben. We sell pre-tuned sets in a variety of scales and can custom-create a chime set based on any scale or frequency.
