Chinese Gong & Best Friend Stand—26 to 28"

The Best Friend stand carries a 26-to-28-inch Chinese gong of your choice from 18 styles, and a mallet completes the set.

Wind gongs are fully lathed with a bright, shiny finish and a flat edge, and a quick strike gives a splashy tone. Chau gongs show a bull's-eye of lathing between the rim and the center, which gives a clear fundamental tone when tapped and a balanced crash on a firm strike. Atlantis gongs are unlathed with an oxidized, patinated surface, and the color and pattern differ from gong to gong.

The Best Friend stand has adjustable hooks that match the holes in the gong and the way the hanging cord is tied. Gong weights run 12 lbs 6 oz to 24 lbs 6 oz depending on style. Activities often associated with creativity, learning, and leisure can also play a meaningful role in cognitive and emotional well-being.

Reading, writing, listening to music, and playing an instrument do more than provide entertainment or creative expression. Research suggests that these activities can help individuals explore, express, understand, and regulate emotional experiences. Music has been associated with emotion-regulation processes and mood management (Peters et al., 2024; Chong et al., 2024), expressive writing has been linked to emotional processing and reflection (Pennebaker, 2018), and reading has been associated with emotional understanding, empathy, and perspective-taking (Rezende & Shigaeff, 2023; Luperini, 2021). These activities also engage cognitive systems involved in language, attention, and memory (Kunert et al., 2015; Maess et al., 2001; Patel, 2003; Yurgil et al., 2020). Musical and linguistic activities draw on shared neural resources for processing structured information, including syntax (Kunert et al., 2015; Maess et al., 2001; Patel, 2003), while music training has been associated with working-memory processes and executive functioning (Yurgil et al., 2020). Reading, writing, and music may support emotional well-being and cognitive development while strengthening communication, memory, attention, emotional understanding, and self-regulation.

Details

• Product: Chinese gong and stand set
• Gong size: 26" to 28"
• Gong styles: Atlantis, Atlantis Chau, Atlantis Wind, Chau, Chocolate Drop, Dark Star, Dark Wind, Deep Breath, Deep Breath Chau, Eventual Horizon, Heng, Lunar Flare, Mother Tesla, Solar Flare, Subatomic, Trilogy, Wind, Brightside Gamma
• Stand: Best Friend stand
• Stand measurements: Exterior Width 42"; Exterior Height 58.5"; Depth at Feet 26"; Inside Width 37"
• Mallet: Mallet
• Gong weight: 12 lbs 6 oz to 24 lbs 6 oz
• Gong origin: China
• Gong appearance: Photo shows an example of the style; individual gongs differ

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