When you hear big music chain stores claim that their gongs are "hand selected" take that with a grain of salt.
The other stores are not sending over some highly trained tea-taster of a gong buyer to personally go over to China and listen to each gong.
They are talking out of their gong-hole.
While Gongs Unlimited does not travel to China to select all its gongs, we work with all the top gongmakers, AND IF YOU HAVE SPECIFIC GONG NEEDS, we do go through and pick them for you here in USA! And will even sometimes play them for you over the phone so you can choose the one you want. That is not hand jive, that is our Hand Selecting Mojo!