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The Art of Rock Balancing - And HandPan Music
While the connection we’re drawing between Rock Balancing, and Handpan music, is pretty tenuous - relying solely on the following video by YouTube user, PanDaman, we’re running with it. Not least...
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Golshifteh Farahani Playing Hang - The Sounds of My Sweet Pepper Land
We might not have too many bona-fide celebrity ambassadors championing the small but growing world of Handpan, at time of posting. But those that we do have, we hold dearly. As it is with Iranian...
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Celebrating World UFO Day, 2016 - HandPan-Style
With the Handpan’s shape being strongly reminiscent of the classic “Flying Saucer” type of UFO, it seems only right that we join hand-in-hand with our sky-watching-brethren, to celebrate “World UFO...
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The Bali Steel Pan - 2016 Model
Old-style Bali (left), 2016-model Bali (right)The Bali Steel Pan was among the first “Hang alternatives” we learned of here at HPM, back in 2010. And alongside the Halo, the BElls, the Spacedrum, and...
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The PANArt Gubal Reconsidered
Back in the summer of 2013 with the announcement of PANArt’s new instrument, the Gubal, we were understandably excited. Like others we caught a sneak-preview at what the Gubal might look like, when...
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Reto Weber Where Are You Now?
While we could find no mention of Reto Weber’s part-played in PANArt’s 2013 published book, Hang: Sound Sculpture. Delve back through older resources and you'll find numerous references as to the...
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Making HandPan Shells - Building a Hydroforming Machine, with Colin Foulke
Arguably the biggest news item this week in Handpan-land, has been the generous offering made by Handpan-musician, turned Handpan-maker, Colin Foulke. In the form of detailed information regarding,...
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When a Spacedrum, Isn’t a Spacedrum
With Handpan virtuoso Sam Maher’s New York subway video going crazy-viral at time of posting, as we often do, we’re seeing a number of people advising others via Facebook comments and the like, as to...
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Sam Maher on HandPan - Terra in the Tunnels
If it feels like "Sam Maher Month" here at HPM, with this being the third near-consecutive post featuring him thus far. As far as we’re concerned - he’s earned it. Because while the saying “a rising...
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Is the HandPan an Instrument of Satan? - KaribPAN Seems to Think So
While it’s very tempting to keep our heads well below the parapet on the following topic, for fear of drawing accusations of Demonic involvement ourselves (just don’t play our sampler album backwards)....
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Vision KUNDA - A Stringed Handpan Instrument
Over the last six years of writing this blog we imagine that more than one post has begin with “just when you thought you’d seen it all...”However, as frequently as we might start to believe that we...
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Dr Levi Harrison’s Finger Stretching Exercises - Become A HandPan Playing...
Finger-stretching ExercisesIn recent times we’ve noticed a number of posts around the interwebs from Handpan players suffering from Hand-pains. Often from extended-playing. Performing any particular...
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Rust: The Longest War - Know Thy Enemy
When Handpan musician Lauri Wuolio asked Russian Handpan maker Victor Levinson, what he thought would happen to his instruments over the next thousand years, Victor replied, “Rust will eat them…”. And...
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Are the Winners of Pantheon Steel's Past eBay Auctions the Real Losers, in...
When a used Halo popped up for sale at eBay yesterday, at the price of $8000 - we knew it wouldn’t be long before the amount being asked came into question (see below)...If it were nearly any other...
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Will the Real Bali Steel Pan Please Stand Up
The Original Bali Steel PanOne interesting point of note learned via the recent announcement of a new 2016 model Bali Steel Pan Handpan, was the confirmation of something that we already suspected....
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HandPan on the Subway with Jerry Walsh - Orange is the New Black
The ways in which people discover the sounds of the Handpan (or as they are often known at that point, "weird metal turtle-shell wok drum things") are many and varied. And while others first heard the...
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The Oktava Mk 12 Microphone - More Handpan Recording Samples
With the Oktava Mk 12 being one of the microphones awarded special commendation by Handpan musician, David Kuckhermann, in his recent Microphone comparison video - with this post we’ll be presenting a...
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The Hudeel - A Handpan-Esque Steel Udu Drum
Interesting variations on the classic Handpan design are always fascinating. In the past we’ve had the Ohm from Dave’s Island Instruments, an instrument made of the steel tongue drum, mixed with the...
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While it’s not something that we stumble across as frequently as we'd like to over in YouTube land, one of our personal favourite things about the Handpan instrument here at HPM, is the way in which...
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The Tielldrum - A Kalimba-Like UFO Drum
A few days ago we took a look at the Hudeel, a Handpan-esque steel Udu drum, as part of our imagined Handpan-orchestra. But an orchestra needs more instruments. Sure, we could add in some Bass Halo...
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