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HandPan History - Some of the Earliest HandPan Ever Made, and Sold
Borrowed from an interesting thread over at the Facebook group, The HandPan Community, discussing the earliest Handpan - are a small-handful of videos, of some of the very first “Hang drum...
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Yatao Music - HandPan Mutualism
The guys behind HandPan Tube’s most popular video, for March, 2016, “Prag”, are Yatao - a Handpan duo hailing from Berlin, Germany.When it comes to Handpan, two, often seems to be the magic number....
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The Hamgam - A HandPan Made of Wood
The “Hamgam”, is an instrument that it’s difficult to officially welcome into the world of singing-steel that we celebrate here at HPM. Primarily, because it’s made of wood. But with its central...
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A Brief History of the Hammer - and Beyond
With every Handpan requiring thousands of hammer blows, in its creation - from the sinking, to the shaping, to the tuning, of the steel - without the humble hammer, there would be no Handpan.Believed...
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Busking for Advertising Dollars Online - Making Money with YouTube for Musicians
Hang MassiveWhile it seems that a good number of Handpan musicians are already familiar with the practice of using Google’s “Adsense” program to make some extra cash from their YouTube performances -...
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T-Shirt Spotlight - ReefPan, by Charlatan Crew
A short t-shirt spotlight post, to highlight a recent design from the artists at Charlatan Crew ,titled ‘ReefPan’.The Charlatan Crew have offered up a number of great Handpan-themed designs in the...
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The Beautiful HandPan Music, of the Beautiful Mumi
A while back we considered doing a “The Women of Handpan” kind of post, highlighting those we considered to be the best female Handpan players out there. Something about that felt weirdly wrong though...
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HarmonicSculpture - Celebrating 100 HandPan Makers - April, 2016
Back in the year 2000, PANArt invented the Hang - and the whole world would come to agree that it was good. But we all wanted one - and there were not enough to go around. Which was a problem...Fast...
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The HandPan Market - And Reassessing Demand Come 2016
Having recently celebrated having added one hundred names to our list of Handpan makers, now that the party is over, in the cold light of day, we wanted to take a closer look at one of the many...
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The Illustrated Story of PANArt - And More
In a recent post titled ‘Dr Ellie Mannette - and the HandPan’, we touched on the fact that the history of PANArt, stretches back to long before the birth of the Hang. And as if in response, to fill in...
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Taking Back the Swastika - With CosmosphereDrums
While browsing Etsy yesterday, we had to do a double-take, when we stumbled across the steel tongue drum pictured right. Adorned boldly with a large swastika, as it is.The majority of us from the...
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Could a HandPan be Built from Vibranium?
With the cinematic release of Marvel’s latest superhero offering, Captain America: Civil War, just days away now (at time of posting), that promises an epic face-off between fellow Avengers, and former...
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How to Make a HandPan MIDI Controller
With the idea of an electronic-Handpan being hugely popular at time of posting, with both the Oval. and the more recently announced, Lumen - having more than reached their funding targets for their...
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Fabian Küpper - And the Sonobe-Handpan Dream Trio
HandPan Tube’s most popular offering for April. 2016, was served up by Handpan musician, Fabian Küpper - with the aid of his “Sonobe Dream Trio”, with the video titled, Groovin' Deva. And with this...
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What Does the Sound of a HandPan Look Like? - Cymatics - The Science of...
If you’ve ever wondered what the sound of a Handpan might look like, if you could see it with your own eyes, you need wonder no more. Because thanks to the science of “Cymatics” - the study of visible...
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PANArt Vs BEllArt - The Battle for the HandPan
The following topic will always hold the potential to be contentious, and pick at scars, that are arguably only just beginning to heal - however, as a slice of Handpan history, the date, June 27th,...
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PANArt Hang Promotional Material - Relics from PANArt’s Distribution Network.
While over the Hang’s short span of production, prior to its retirement by PANArt in 2013, “Mystique” levels surrounding the Hang grew to the point where folks were near offering up their...
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Microphone Comparison for HandPan - with David Kuckhermann
Handpan have always had a bit of a reputation for beings instruments with a sound that is difficult to capture fully with microphones. Whether for recording, or live-performance, the Handpans...
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HandPan Rope Decorations - from Zen-Percussion
A short post to highlight the handwoven Handpan rope decorations currently being offered for sale by Zen-Percussion - the guys behind the GUDA drum. We know from our reading around the internet that...
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Improvisation JB Handpan - HandPan Tube’s Most Popular - May, 2016
HandPan Tube’s most popular video of May, 2016, came in the form of the following improvisational piece on a Handpan made by Jan Borren, performed by YouTube user, Inner Music.It’s a nicely played...
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