Yes! It comes with gong stand and mallet. YES! It is a great deal! Now The Malletheads at Gongs Unlimited done love them some Chinese Gongs, not only for the sound, but because they are ancient, over a thousand years old, before all this crazy Chinese Factory thing happened. They still make them old school, which is a refreshing change of pace in a i-mad world, as we are led through the Gates to a place where Jobs keeps us all 'app-y. But we can't forget how recently there was a Chairman Mao over there in a China that was in the Red, versus how it is in the Black now. Mao, Mao, Mao...do you remember him, you members of Sam's Club and Costco? Mao! He was the guy that inspired The Who to write the song, Behind Brown Eyes? No one knows what it's like To be the Chair-man To be the sad Mao Behind Brown Eyes No one knows what it's like To be hated To be fated To be Stalin's Bitch But my quotes They aren't as empty As my conscience seems to be I put millions, deep in graves now My love is vengeance That's never free  HEAR THE 18 inch CHAU GONG HEAR THE 18 inch CHAU GONG ANOTHER WAY YES! The path is shorter than you think between Revolutionary Leader to Authoritarian Despot, and it's littered with famine, prisons, violence, and the occasional theater event where you politely clap. If it is power that you want, take a look at the karma that can come with it. It's always fun to spend a few lifetimes learning and fixing what you done did. If it is power that you need, you must have, try to remember who created the "power" to begin with. Then maybe that kinda power ain't so important. However, to give Mao credit, sometimes it takes a while to turn a giant agrarian economy and a culture and people with poor self-esteem into something resembling an industrial urban landscape, and you gotta deal with some dissent from just about everyone, but your legacy is that your nation can be then developed basically into a factory for more developed and richer nations, until it becomes an economic force in the capitalist world, growing so large it can tell the capitalist forces what to do... And he could rock the mic.. Fierce-browed, I coolly defy a thousand pointing fingers, Head-bowed, like a willing ox I serve the children. -- Chairman Mao |