Wayunki - Tongue Chime Bell

Wayunki a unique instrument for meditation, relaxation, ceremonies, healing and playing for fun. It finds its use in live, improvized or composed music, where it complements other music instruments with its specific sound mood. There are many people who have been using Wayunki during ceremonial spaces, sound healing events and therapeutic sessions

Wayunki was created by Ondřej Janoušek based in Prague, Czech Republic  

The Wayunki has 4 distinct musical elements that can be explored, combined and interchanged to bring different experiences of the sound.

• MELODIC PERCUSSION - melodic tongues arranged in a cylinder shape and played with a mallet, similar to a tongue drum, and you can also play notes then wave the Wayunki in the air to create a cool effect
• WAH-WAH  - mouthpiece on one end of the Wayunki that allows you to create a wah wah sound with your mouth with the notes you play to modulate the sound
• AMBIENT CHIMES  - special attachment to suspend the Wayunki on a string from the top with a piece inside hitting the notes from the inside to create a lovely sound similar to a wind chime  
• SWINGING BELL - with chime attachment on you can create a randomized sustained bell sound by swinging the Wayunki in a wider path: swinging Wayunki like a pendulum in front of you, moving yourself in a circle with arm outstretched, or spinning Wayunki around like a clock to the side of you (be gentle with this last method)

Listen to all the each Wayunki tuning on the 'Listen' tab to pick which one resonates with you the most, or purchase several Wayunki to create different experiences of this at your events.

At this time Wayunki are only made in 440 Hz.

Listen

Scroll down on track title area to hear all the tunings!

Play

How to Play Notes & Wah Wah

Make Ambient Chime Sounds

Meet the Makers

Instrument creator Ondřej (L) and business partner Marty (R)

NOTE: Be sure to turn on the closed captioning so you can understand Czech language!

The Story of Wayunki

While immersed in a Bufo ceremony in 2018, the maker had indescribable sound sensations in a powerful ceremony. During the process, our guide and facilitator Yann used a tibetan singing bowl and an instrument called wah wah tube. Each of the instruments was placed next to one of my ears and the adventure was fascinating. Since then, a vision was planted in me – a vision to create such an instrument. And after some time, it happened. Just from the original sound and instrument I met during the ceremony a new instrument was born – one that evoked the original one just remotely.

Why “Wayunki”?

From the first prototype of Wayunki, I knew that the name of the instrument would sound like this… Or I could say that the instrument already knew what it was called… My job was just to put the letters and syllables together to make it fit exactly. The process took me about 10 minutes. The word Wayunki can also express the phonetic transcription of the sound wayuwayuwayu, where the “ki” can resemble the initial strike of a stick – ki 🙂