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14" Gongs on the Au Courant Gong Stand

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14" Gongs on the Au Courant Gong StandThis combo includes the gong of your choice, the Au Courant Gong Stand, and a traditional Chinese gong mallet. While we're waiting for more ancient truths to be revealed, there is a way to open up more direct communication with our future underwater overlords. The device for hailing is contained in the 14" Atlantis Gong. Due to their hand made nature, every gong features an individual patina, sending a specific communique to unique undersea addresses.

This combo includes the gong of your choice, the Au Courant Gong Stand, and a traditional Chinese gong mallet.


While we're waiting for more ancient truths to be revealed, there is a way to open up more direct communication with our future underwater overlords. The device for hailing is contained in the 14" Atlantis Gong.

Due to their hand-made nature, every gong features an individual patina, sending a specific communique to unique undersea addresses. The 14" Atlantic sings out with a deep, mystical tone with far more flavors than can usually be summoned from a gong of this size.

The 14" Atlantis Gong is like an engraved invitation to participate in the joyous revelries being undertaken by these, hopefully, peace-loving native sea-farers. Get your own 14" Atlantis Gong, so the next time you hear the waves lapping at the shore and they seem to say, "Join us- Join us-," you can reply in deep and varied tones, "I am here. I'm listening".

Approximate Gong Weight: 3 lbs 4 oz


The 14" Bao Gong is reminiscent of the gongs made in other Southeast Asian cultures like Thailand, Java and similar, thanks to the center raised portion, known as a bell or a nipple. This is the part of the gong that you strike for its clear tone.

Chinese Bao Gongs are sometimes thicker and heavier than their fellow nations' versions, as they are not trying to tune them to specific notes, like the ones in gamelan orchestras or Thai tuned gongs.

The Bao Gong conveys great clear tones and are a nice sonic tonic for ears in search of clarity.


The 14” Chau Gong provides the classic gong sound, you may hear in your head before you hear this actual gong, causing the player of the gong to utter such outbursts as, "O my!", "O yes!" or "O goodness! An oscillating ostrich ousted the only orange Orinoco ocelot!"

(Note: Personal outbursts may vary according to user and geographic location.)

Approximate Gong Weight: 3 lbs 6 oz


The 14" Chocolate Drop Gong has a lustrous golden sheen akin to that of hazy sunlight through a fine vintage of whiskey, a drink for which the Irish have, historically, shown an affinity.

In the center of this gong's shimmer, the "chocolate drop" perches as if it were a stray dollop of Guinness, a liquid of pure Irish lineage, or dare I suggest an "eye" on a potato.

Approximate Gong Weight: 3 lbs 6 oz


The 14" Dark Star Gong features a shimmering center pool of light surrounded by the evidence of a creator's hand at work on the darker outer ring.

The Dark Star produces a dark, clean tone, as might be expected from its name, but it is a tone with a prominent top note of fun. Sweet, sweet fun. Good, clean fun. Great for the next time you and your friends are celebrating with a night of constellation gazing and grooving to the celestial music of the spheres. Naked as the day you were created out of star dust.

Approximate Gong Weight: 3 lbs 4 oz


Recently blown in to Gongs Unlimited, the 14” Dark Wind Gong is similar to traditional Wind Gongs, but with an unlathed outer edge. The unlathed part controls the crash, creating less splash than a wind gong and preventing the gong from opening up sound-wise like a fully lathed gong.

The balanced, deep tones of this gong can aid in your spiritual and emotional healing practices. Add one of these gongs to your sound therapy or yoga studio and meditate on the peaceful, harmonic motion of all things.

Approximate Weight of Gong: 2 lbs 8 oz


Exclusive to Gongs Unlimited, the 14" Deep Breath Chau Gongs are similar to the Deep Breath Gongs that we have all come to love, but with a rim! The presence of the rim focuses the sound and combined with the dark unlathed center, provides great sustain while holding the crash in.

Approximate Weight of Gong: 3 lbs 6 oz


The 14" Heng Gong has glorious and deep tones which will grant you the inner peace you crave. It’s a heavy gong that has a thick rim, and has a naturally deep tone for its size.

Approximate Gong Weight: 4 lbs 10 oz


The 14" Mother Tesla Gong embodies the human electricity that every mother gives to her child through her heartbeat, tummy rumbles, laughter and shouts! It is the same energy we share with each other every day.

The Mother Tesla does this by coming to life as herself. Unlike most other gongs, she has no lathing that shows the bright bronze underneath. Her tones come out with depth and take time to splash out.

Approximate Gong Weight: 3 lbs 4 oz


Hello 14” Pasi Gong, how are you today?

Oh I'm gonging...ahem...doing very well, thank you.

14 inches is a good amount of bronze, if you know what I mean. I want to hear all about you. What are your best qualities?

I'm not one to bang my own gong. But you can. Pick up that mallet and invite me.

Haha! That's more like a tickle!

Oooo, but the sound. You have such depth. Sends a shiver down my spine.

Want to try again?

I do! Oh, yes! That crash! That bright, shimmer of sound moving through my brain. Whoa!

I've got what you need. Dark depth, bright crashes. Baby, I'm your gong.

Yes, you are.


The 14” Solar Flare Gong on the Au Courant Stand is circles within circles, worlds within worlds, the 'O' (or 'Au' en francais) has a long and storied history. In fact, (en anglais), you can't spell 'story' without 'o' or 'history' without 'story' and so it goes, an ever-widening gyre in which the 'o' establishes its born-to-glory provenance as the crown jewel of vowels and all that they encompass.

As you can see above in the phot-O, the fabled 'o' begins in the center of the gong, much as a "bull's-" (or for o's purposes "cow's-") eye and expands outward, as ripples in a pond, culminating in the Au Courant Stand itself, a sort of punctuation, open to interpretation.

Approximate Gong Weight: 2 lbs 8 oz


In the dream we both shared, the dream of a perfect music in an imperfect world, a dream where people were nude, not naked, there was a 14” Subatomic Gong that made the miniature elephants rise on their hind legs and dance, while trumpeting out the names of angels that could be understood in any language.

In this evanescent mental illusion that we both knew as true, and false, we walked about the soft velvety leaves as they fell from the memory trees in the forgiveness forest. In our shared dream, we brushed against the bushes that whispered the names of those who were about to do anonymous good deeds somewhere on the planet.

And somewhere the Subatomic Gong was struck that was both smaller than electrons and larger than the belly of an infinitely expanding Bodhisattva. So we heard and felt it in our future, though it had been struck in our past.

It was the electromagnetic wandering that led us here, to this gong, and I knew you would see it, and seize upon it, and purchase it. And then you would strike this gong, and walk further in the dream, never lost again.

Approximate Gong Weight: 3 lbs 6 oz


The 14” Tiger Gong is a pitch-bending gong which will rise in tone as it is played, of the sort used in Chinese opera...the type of opera for which esteemed actor and funnyman Jackie Chan spent his entire childhood training.

Unfortunately for William Blake, his lack of knowledge about the 14" Tiger Gong meant that, although he accomplished many things, he never mastered KUNG FU COMEDY. He left that up to the experts to conduct in poetry of a different sort...

And those experts in turn are doing their part to make sure that tigers continue to exist, their symmetry intact...


The 14” Wind Gong is a beautiful sonic instrument.
Delicate and musical when you want it to be.
But also able to get loud and boisterous in a room.

Approximate Gong Weight: 2 lbs 8 oz

The Au Courant Gong Stand is current, cutting edge, and fashionable! Circular objects are pleasing in their suggestion of softness and in the way they mirror familiar objects found in the natural world. (Planets, fishes mouths, Oreos…)

If you enjoy the oblique sleekness of a gong and wish to surround it in another circle, and if you are a vampire...then this gong stand is the "O Positive" choice.

Gong Stand Measurements:
Length: 14"
Height: 20"
Depth of Base: 4"
Inside Width Space: 17.5"
Space From Hanging Hooks to Base: 16"

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Matt M
Bozeman, US
★★★★★ 5
Will reading Wired for Story really make you smarter?
Format: Paperback
In my 36th year as a would-be and penniless writer, I found myself exiled to a dark rough and tumble city in the Far West, guns blazing as a steely-eyed wordslinger for hire. But then one day I stumbled upon Lisa Cron's book Wired for Story. The book's title had my curiosity. A few sample pages later grabbed my attention and has held it ever since. But the price wasn't right for a poor, humble English teacher living in China upon a Chinese salary. I had bills to pay, a mistress to please, and habits to feed. It seemed to me that Amazon.com was colluding with other dark powers to suck humanity dry; why else would they charge more for a digital book than its paper copy? But then I heard ghostly voices, the cinematic intonations of Morpheus telling me to choose between the red and blue pill; Obiwan Kenobi, "Use the Force"; Nike commercials, "Just Do It!"; and other such shadows flickering upon the wall of my TV room. Even this very particular retail website seemed to whisper across all the vastness of cyberspace, reminding me of my destiny via a personalized showcase of products, that I was not just born to buy... So I added it to my cart. About a download and two chapters later I found that I was still happy after the post-purchase buzz ran its course. This book should be required reading for all writers - and anybody else seeking an inoculation against the raging pandemic of competing narratives spewed out from marketers, pundits, prophets, and others posing as guardians of the truth - most of whom seem to be more enraptured than enlightened. For writers though, Wired for Story is quite different from other "how to" books, as Lisa Cron approaches the craft of storytelling from a neuroscientific point of view. She makes the case that writers aren't just entertainers: they are some of most powerful shakers and shapers of human perception. So if storytellers are like snake oil salesmen, then what is the difference? Both seem to be highly skilled in crafting story, using imagery, and evoking emotions, memories, desires. The difference is all about marketing. Salesmen claim to have knowledge, skills, and expertise, that they, and they alone have whatever it takes to get the facts right and fix things. They market their brands cloaked in story, as if they have a monopoly on truth, or at least the can-do spirit and problem-solving experience needed to improve the economy, save the world, whatever. It doesn't matter that time and time again reality proves them wrong; they will always have another story to spin. The difference between those who would use the power of story to express themselves versus those who would use it for personal gain is, perhaps, a fine red line marking the shadowy borders of between ethics and morality. Storytellers differ because they use words to hook audiences and manipulate a willing reader's central nervous system. They make no claims to knowledge or expertise. Indeed, fiction writers will be first to emphasize their work is fictional, and not based on any real life events or people. Their best writing leaves readers thinking, questioning, minds opening, empathizing, expanding their worldviews, the list goes on almost ad infinitum. Storytellers speak for themselves and let audiences think for themselves; pundits speak for others and tell audiences what to think. What's more, the art and craft of story, as well as the talent and hard time in solitary confinement required for their honing, is estimated to take an average storyteller at least 1,000,000 words or 10,000 hours - not including all the reading, language arts development, and life experience necessary to get to a point one needs to seriously embark on such a ludicrous and un-economical vocation. This means that fiction writers who risk everything for dubious prospects of financial reward must have something else driving them - and a good day job. A presidential candidate though, who has genuinely done the time, and crafts speeches with the skill of a poet or bard, should hypothetically have the critical thinking background, moral authority, and empathy to be a great leader. But in the final analysis, actions contradict words; their ability to spin tales proves the old universal theme that the pen is mightier than the sword. Now when I finish Wired for Story sometime this week, I will be one step further on this endless quest to actually sell stories for a living (i.e. stories fit for the fiction aisle of an actual bookstore, not a review for an online retailer). Until then, I'm probably just a hypocrite acting as if a single book alone makes a smarter man, when in fact I know little of anything (which is why I became a writer in the first place) -- or maintaining such a humble pretense. But I don't know myself well enough to be certain. That kind of exploration would be a whole other story - but it would be unsafe to say that I lived happily ever after reading this book. The End
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Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2012
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Lake Worth, US
★★★★★ 4
A Cheeky Novel about writing cheeky novels
Format: Paperback
Wired for Story is a book full of solid, albeit basic, advice for story tellers, and in particular writers trying to develop their craft. It succeeds in some areas while falls down in others, however I found it solid and well written overall. Where it succeeds is in its brevity and clarity. The author gets right to the point and even provides short lists at times of what to do and how to do it. Her writing is also peppered with cheeky humor which is humorous in a thats-almost-funny kind of way that is refreshing compared to the textbook style adopted by many how-to-write books. Where the book fell down, for me, was in its limited examples and scope. It really felt like the author was addressing romance writers, for the most part. I could think of a few counter examples to some of her rules, although one would have to leave the romance genre for those to work. But for a 230 page book, that is minor discrepancy. The second thing I noticed, which has already been pointed out by others, is that the brain science was limited. In fact, it was mostly only refereed to in footnote. Personally, that was fine with me, but I could see why it made others feel misled (it is in the title, after all).
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Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2014
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Martijn13Maart1970
Lexington, US
★★★★★ 5
Unfortunately yet another one to add on the pile of writing books!
Format: Paperback
I say 'unfortunately another good book on writing' since I have been reading many books on the topic and each time I think I have read it all by now, pfff, but then another one like this comes along. But hey, it is fun to read about writing and especially if you get something useful and new out of it. Always worth the money. Why the accolades for this book? All the information on characters, plot, details etc, how they work and why they are important, is not new. You find them in many reading books, especially from Reader's and Writer's Digest series. I would especially recommend the books on plot and structure by James Scott Bell. Yet this book Wired For Story is not redundant, since it is unique in both the focus on the familiar subjects like what story is, the importance of details, details versus generics, how events affect a character etc. The approach of using brain science shows in a compelling way why all the stuff in the book (and for that matter, the classic theory on writing) is there for a reason, since it has evolved out of how we humans seem to perceive a story. Interesting though, a lot of rules like 'write about what you know' are shown to be myths. Of course, in the end it is you as a reader that has to decide what works for you, but you will find new things here and that is always good. If you are thinking about writing a story, this book can give you a very sharp focus on what to think about before you start. Or, like me, when you have a draft, and you want to get to the 'real story' behind it to come forward, this work gives you a very transparent way to get better clues as to what stays and what has to go. It is also entertaining and easy to read, so, all I can say is, yet again a book on writing you cannot afford to miss! I just added some extra information: I loved the humor and wisdom of the writer. She has worked for years reading manuscripts and she does know her stuff, and I liked her tone, which was both realistic but also fun! How many times have you read a reference work and actually had to laugh? But this book was also profound on many story issues. Many common writing rules are, as I said before, shown to be myths and more importantly, why this is so. I have read for instance so often that you should have some sensory info on every page, but, as I thought myself and I am not the only one: although this makes things more lively, it should only be there if the story would dictate it! The book has many more things like these. I have compiled a collection of notes I took from all the many many books on writing so I measure new books on writing in how much text I copied and pasted to look at again and this book has given me lots, so 5 stars and I hope we will see more of this author again! I also recommend the book by James Scott Bell on plot and structure which you can find here
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Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2012
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C. F. King
Whiting, US
★★★★★ 5
Great book
Format: Kindle
I have been an author for decades and published 4 books. I've been an editor for over a decade and this book is perfect for seasoned and new writers. It certainly made me take a new, long look at the latest book I'm busy with. I think it's great for getting one focused on the important points. I loved it. There wasn't too much about how the brain works to bore one or make it feel like a technical book on neuroscience. I found her writing style amusing and entertaining. I will definitely recommend it to all my clients and writing friends. There was nothing in the book I didn't know, but this book forces one to focus on the bigger picture. It doesn't matter how accomplished one is as a writer, one can always learn more. And I certainly did with this book. So, thank you, Ms. Cron. I saw the negative three or fewer star comments and can only think the commentators didn't see what the author was actually trying to convey. It's a classic lesson in the KISS method (keep it simple stupid) and I loved it. This isn't a full-on, in-depth analysis of every part of the craft of writing, as many seemed to expect, that would take 12 full books or more. This is also not only for beginners as some suggest. To them I would say, don't let hubris cloud your ability to write better--think beyond that--read the book again. I think the book serves as an excellent reference to keep us on track when we lose the plot, so to speak. Seasoned writers can get quite jaded and write almost on auto-pilot at times--not good. Thank you, Ms. Cron, for putting me back on track and making me excited to re-write and re-edit my latest book, my first YA fantasy, for the zillionth time. I was out of my comfort zone with this book and feeling a bit overwhelmed and unsure. Wired for Story has me fired up to go forth and do this. I highly recommend this book, especially for seasoned writers.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2018
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robert lanier
Draper, US
★★★★★ 5
Quality writing information
Format: Paperback
A book that was fun to read and informative. I feel as though I have a better understanding of writing fiction now.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2026

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