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Bringing into Question Ballistol and FrogLube
While PANArt recommended Biofa Oil, for protecting Hanghang from rust, in earlier years, and later switched to a new biopolymer-based cleaning and anti-corrosive fluid, known as “Hang cleaning fluid”,...
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Selling Royalty Free Handpan Music
In the past here at HPM we’ve published posts on selling your Handpan music via Bandcamp, and making money from your videos using Google’s adsense program. And in a similar vain, with this post, will...
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Ornately Decorated Handpan - Eye-Catching Designs
For a good while steel tongue drum were the "peacocks" of UFO-shaped singing steel, while Handpan remained, in general, more humble in their appearance. Over the last few years though we’ve shared...
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The Aare River Monsters - PANArt Vs Tatzelwurm
While here at HPM, if we were to publish a post on a cryptid (an animal whose existence or survival is disputed or unsubstantiated, such as the yeti), you might imagine that with the Handpan’s iconic...
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Handpan Floor Stands - by NaturePan
While beautiful musical instruments, Handpan, are not, in general, the easiest of instruments to store. There are some really decent protective cases now on the market, but, storing your Handpan in...
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Eat Your Guru - Handpan and Didgeridoo with Andy Duroe
While it has been amazing over the last few years to report on the myriad of new Handpan-makers bursting out onto the scene, and the stream of new accessories, and other related innovations that have...
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Homemade “Hang Drum” like Instrument - Made from Empty Plastic Bottles
Want to play the Handpan but the costs of purchasing one are just too prohibitive? Perhaps it’s time to get creative…Over the years we’ve stumbled across a number of homemade Hang/Handpan inspired...
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The Dangers of Crowdfunding Handpan-Related Projects
With the rise of websites like Kickstarter, and Indigogo, “Crowdfunding”, has become increasingly popular in recent years as a way for internet-users to come together to help facilitate the creation of...
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Three High-End Steel Tongue Drum for Sale
While not everybody agrees that Handpan, and steel tongue / Hank drum should be grouped together as instrument types, however loosely - for those not having much luck in their search, or those not...
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Three Slovakia Made Handpan
Slovakia is a central European country known for its dramatic natural landscape and many castles. Near the Austrian border, capital city Bratislava features a pedestrian-only Old Town with a lively...
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Would You Rent Out Your Handpan? - The Sharing Economy and Peer-to-Peer Lending
Would you rent out your Handpan? If you’re not already aware of it, the latest “big thing” online is the rise of the “sharing economy”, and the rise of the peer-to-peer renting platforms that...
View ArticleNew PANArt Instrument - The Hang Gede
At time of writing this post we checked the two largest Facebook groups for any chatter of PANArt having launched a new member of their Pang-made "new-Hang" family of instruments, and found none. Are...
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“HandClap” - A Percussive Handpan Accessory from Hardcase Technologies
Hardcase Technologies, the Italian company behind the ever popular Evatek range of Handpan protective cases (and a bunch of other stuff), have given us so many interesting things over the years since...
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The Mysterious Case of the eBay "PANArt Integral Hang Prototypes"
eBay has thrown up some interesting Handpan auctions over the years, mixed in with a fairly generous sprinkling of scams. And while the majority of those scams are of the traditional “you can buy now...
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EXTREME Handpan’ing - Not Your Every-Day Performances
We all know how it is. You hear your precious across a crowded street, or as an unexpected surprise in an online video, and instantly; you’re smitten. She sings so sweetly that you know you have to...
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Teenage MUTANT Ninja Handpan - Non-Standard Handpan Mutations
The maker behind one of Handpan Bay’s most popular offerings in recent times, is L.A. based, Terence Jay, of “Nirvana Handpan”. And the instrument that is currently setting Handpan Bay alight, is a...
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Ron Kravitz - The Man Who Brought the PANArt Hang to America
The story of the Handpan is littered with many notable figures. From PANArt’s Felix Rohner, and Sabina Scharer (the Hang makers) themselves, who created the first Handpan-instruments. Through to Reto...
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Gioli - The DJ Versus the Handpan Instrument
We’ve used the “Versus” term somewhat inappropriately in post titles before, as we have again here (mainly because we like the sound of it). But in reality, there is no conflict here. But instead,...
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Mix the City - Create Instant Fun City-Based Musical Mixes
Following up on our recent post on, Gioli - the electronic music mixing Handpan-playing DJ, we’re now going to introduce you (assuming that you’re not already familiar with it) to, “Mix the City”. A...
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Arcana Musical Instruments - Handpan Made in Colorado
We stumbled across the work of Arcana Musical Instruments for sale a little whiles back now over at ETSY, and were instantly impressed. Built by Josh Keegan, and Jerred Houseman, in Colorado, U.S.,...
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