Selling Your HandPan Music Online - BandCamp
BandCamp - The BasicsUsing Facebook to Promote your BandCamp TracksAt the time of writing, if you’re looking to sell your HandPan music online, directly to your fans, etc., ‘BandCamp’ appears to be the...
View ArticleWhat to do if your Hang / HandPan is lost or stolen...
Firstly, "Don’t Panic!" No - scratch that, "Do Panic!" - have a little cry. - punch something (inanimate) if need be. But then, wipe away your tears, and begin to set wheels in motion...Offline you...
View ArticleZen HandPan - of Sacramento, California
There’s not a huge amount of information out there at time of writing, regarding this new comer to the HandPan family. But, going on our ears alone, it has to be said, that the ‘Zen HandPan’, is...
View ArticleThe 2013 Pantheon Steel Halo Lottery Poll
With the 2013 Pantheon Steel Halo lottery upon us (at time of posting), and with so many possible choices, we couldn't help but be intrigued as to what sound models others would be choosing as their...
View ArticleDavid Galleher - Land Sea and Sky
I’d stumbled across ‘David Galleher’ in a few things I’ve enjoyed recently, prior to writing this post. From a video we featured on our ‘vertical playing’ post, through to one of the earliest...
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HandPan Stands - A Selection of...
While HandPan are generally considered to be lap-played instruments, for some, this may not be practical, or comfortable - which is where a HandPan stand might come in handy. While others might find...
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Hang and HandPan - Removing Rust with Steel Wire Wool
I recently acquired something of a ‘Rescue-Dog’ Hang - a Hang that has seen better days. It’s certainly in need of a visit to a tuner, something that to some degree the price I paid for it reflected,...
View ArticleAn Interview with Daniel Waples - The Man Behind the Hang
Having followed the world and growth of HanPan for a while now, from the Hang onwards - and with this man being one half of the outfit that first introduced the Hang to our personal MP3 playlist (The...
View ArticleThe HandPans Magazine Sampler Album Project
HandPans Magazine Sampler Album Vol.1. (2013)Spotlighting some of the most talented, and dedicated HandPan musicians in the world, through a compilation of some of the best Hang, and HandPan music to...
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HandPan Presentation Stands - from 'HandPan Stuff'
The subject of one of our more popular Facebook posts (at time of writing) confirms what we already knew. HandPan people (or the majority of them at least) LOVE their HandPan. In a, ‘I’d happily give...
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How to Play the HandPan - Intermediate to Advanced Lessons
The worst thing about attempting to review the DVD, “HandPans and Sound Sculptures - Intermediate to Advanced", by Colin Foulke, is that every time I sat down intending to write the review, I got so...
View ArticleHang / HandPan Scales and Sound Models Explored
One of the more useful HandPan resources we’ve stumbled across in recent times (at time of writing) is the Google site wiki titled ‘Hang and HandPan Scales’. Whether you’re a Hang-inspired instrument...
View ArticleDaniel Waples Inspired Steel Tongue Drum - The Babel Drum Titan
With over thirty thousand Facebook followers (at time of writing), and literally millions of views to his YouTube videos, if any Hang / HandPan musician is deserving of an instrument built in their...
View ArticleWhat is a Pantam? - Answered
As the name, ‘Disco Armonico’ (meaning ‘harmonic disc’), was often used in place of the name ‘Hang’, in Italy, by retailers of PANArts earlier instruments (and is another name that went on to be used...
View ArticleHandPans and ElectroMagnetic Hands (Magic Hands)
Just when you start to believe that you’ve seen it all, in the world of HandPan, something comes along and in no unclear terms, shows you that you very much haven’t. And we love that. Which is why...
View ArticleThe 'Mother Hang' - The PANArt Hang Prototype
There have been many and varied interesting developments and innovations within the world of HandPan, since the day we first stumbled across the Hang ourselves many years back now. Yet, while this...
View ArticleElectric HandPan - The Genesis Symphonette
In our last post discussing the ‘Mother Hang’, the first Hang prototype, we took a look at where ultimately all HandPan had come from. In this post, we’re going the opposite way, and taking a look at...
View ArticleSungeun Jin - A Stadium HandPan K-POP Extravaganza
If any HandPan player could stand up proudly and say, in a Frank Sinatra esque fashion, “I did it my way!”, ‘ Sungeun Jin’, could certainly count himself among them. As the Korean HandPan virtuoso...
View ArticleHang - Sound Sculpture - The Book/CD (and First Thoughts on the PANArt Gubal).
Note - This post contains nothing more than the individual thoughts, opinions, and tastes of HandPans Magazine. Yours may well differ, and as far as we’re concerned, that’s a good thing... (* the...
View ArticleHow to Make the Ultimate Pantheon Steel Halo Album / CD - For FREE
If you’ve fallen in love with the sound of the Pantheon Steel Halo, or more to the point, the many sounds of the many and varied Pantheon Steel Halo sound models, and would like the ability to be able...
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