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Handpans Magazine's Album of the Year - 2016
While there’s no denying that 2016 was a spectacular year for the world of Handpan, in terms of the number of new makers hitting the scene, making a whole range of new instruments available to those...
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Two New Handpan Specific Anti-Corrosion Treatments Hit the Market
While the U.S. produced “FrogLube”, and the Germany-made “Ballistol”, have arguably earned themselves the reputation of being the two most tried-and-tested general-purpose anti-corrosion treatments to...
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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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Two New Online Handpan Schools - Paid Handpan Tutorials
A good number of people reaching this website, do so in search of Handpan lessons, and tutorials. And while we frequently share videos of that nature that pop-up on YouTube, and have in the past made...
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The Birth of the India-Made Handpan? - Shellopan Visit Goa
Over the last few years we’ve witnessed new Handpan makers popping up all over the globe, but to date, news of much going on in India, one of the most populated countries on the planet, has been very...
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GoPro Goes Handpan - Hands-Free Handpan Recording
While the GoPro brand of action cameras might be primarily focused on the sports market, showcasing downhill mountain bikers, snowboarders, and their ilk, the benefits of the GoPro’s convenient...
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Handpan Buying Guide and Advice
What Are Handpan?The Handpan was born in the year 2000 in Bern, Switzerland, in the form of the “Hang”, a hand-played UFO-shaped steel instrument, created by Hang Makers Felix Rohner, and Sabina...
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PAN INC - Handpan South Africa
If you’ve heard of the Tzevaot brand of Handpan, then you’ve by-the-by heard of the instruments of PAN INC. - the South-Africa based manufacturers of Handpan, and Steel Pan. Because while Tzevaot have...
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TokTone Drums - by Dave’s Island Instruments
Over the years Dave’s Island Instruments have proven themselves to be innovators within the world of Handpan. They were the first (that we knew of) to produce an “Electric Handpan”, and would later...
View ArticleHow to Clean your Handpan
South Africa based Handpan-makers, PAN INC, recently made a post to their Facebook wall stating: ‘Did you know, it's very important to clean your pan regularly? - A dirty pan will cause rust, which...
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The Living Room sESSions - with Echo Sound Sculpture
In the earliest days of this website, back when Handpan makers were few-and-far between, we were lucky enough to catch the earliest offerings of Swiss Handpan maker, Ezahn Bueraheng, of Echo Sound...
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FuturePoi - Smart Poi by MoodHoops
While this website is primarily dedicated to the world of Handpan, from time-to-time, we’ll use the tenuous connection of Handpan music being featured in a video to post about something a little more...
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WidJana - New Handpan from the Ukraine
eBay might take a lot of fire within the core Handpan community for being an “evil corporation”, and all that stuff (which, to be honest, they kind of are), but, over the last seven years of writing...
View ArticleIndian Fusion Dance - And Handpan Music
Increasingly these days here at HPM, where the Handpan leads, we follow. And as more and more people take up the instrument type, the steel-UFO finds its way into evermore interesting situations, and...
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A Choir of Angels - and the Sound of the Handpan
A “Chorus" and/or "Choir" of Angels are terms often used to describe the sound of the Hang / Handpan - and it is a descriptive believed to have originated with Hang-maker, Felix Rohner, himself. And...
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Yoon - Handpan Music from South Korea
One of our new year's resolutions here at HPM, for 2017, was to try to do more to shine a light on musicians and artists doing great things with the Handpan. Something that in recent years we have...
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Rudiments for Handpan - Improve Coordination and Complexity
In many ways the beauty of the Handpan as an instrument, particularly for those without a musical background, is that there is no set way in which the Handpan should be played. Or in other words, you...
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Horizon Zero Dawn - Handpan Spotted
A cool little spot from Brandon Chia over at Facebook, that shows (in the picture below) what is clearly some kind of Handpan instrument featured in the 2017 released video game, Horizon Zero...
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The Oval Synth App
Back in 2015 we reported on the crowdfunded Handpan-like electronic instrument, the Oval. And while backers of the Oval’s Kickstarter campaign may have had something of an over-extended wait for their...
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Solos Handpan - Made in Canada
At time of posting there aren’t too many makers that we know of based in Canada for those hailing from those lands to choose from. But one of the most established Canadian makers now, and easily...
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