Inverted Steel Pan Drum

The handpan or hang is a convex steel drum played with the hands and tuned with multiple notes.

Inverted steel pan drum.

The entire instrument vibrates to make the sound not simply a drum skin allowing it to create a range of pitches no drum could dream of. Tosfogo 13 notes 12 inches steel tongue drum percussion instrument hand pan drum with travel bag music book mallets. Developed in the republic of trinidad and tobago in the 1930 s the steel pan drum isn t actually a drum at all but an idiophone. The round steel surface traditionally repurposed from an emptied oil.

Developed in the year 2000 by swiss company panart the hang or hang drum their melancholic sound bewitches everyone that hears it. Sootop steel tongue drum lotus hand pan drum percussion instruments with drum mallets carry bag for music therapists performances price 109. Sonically the handpan is an overtone emitting instrument that has the capacity to create many layers of sound and ethereal effects and works very well with drone instruments. These inverted steel drums or hand pans have similarly hammered notes but are played more by hand than.

Today they have become popular all over the world and their unique and charming sound has recently inspired similar inverted models.