Inverted Steel Pan Drum

The handpan or hang is a convex steel drum played with the hands and tuned with multiple notes.

Inverted steel pan drum.

Steel pans first originated in the west indies and evolved from scrap metal used for percussion. Pan drums or hand pans are a very recent musical invention. These inverted steel drums or hand pans have similarly hammered notes but are played more by hand than. Each handpan is tuned to a particular scale such as major natural minor harmonic minor hijaz mixolydian etc.

Sonically the handpan is an overtone emitting instrument that has the capacity to create many layers of sound and ethereal effects and works very well with drone instruments. Developed in the year 2000 by swiss company panart the hang or hang drum their melancholic sound bewitches everyone that hears it. Tosfogo 13 notes 12 inches steel tongue drum percussion instrument hand pan drum with travel bag music book mallets. Developed in the republic of trinidad and tobago in the 1930 s the steel pan drum isn t actually a drum at all but an idiophone.

The entire instrument vibrates to make the sound not simply a drum skin allowing it to create a range of pitches no drum could dream of.