Steel handpans are skillfully crafted instruments that produce a slightly resonant, ethereal melody in light tones. Lightweight and portable, they are a great instrument for many people. A wide variety of these awesome instruments are listed on eBay, so anyone from a beginner to a professional can shop with ease.
The choice of a drum is primarily based on who will be playing it. These affordable instruments are generally hand-crafted with great care and play beautifully for many years. For a teen or adult, the drum should be chosen based on the players preferences. They come in many different scales, sizes, and levels of resonance. Knowing the scales that you enjoy hearing is helpful since both minor and major scales are available.
Advanced players may desire a drum with more than eight notes. Some people choose inexpensive, industry-manufactured drums when buying for younger children. Finger covers may be useful for young players. An efficient and clever note layout is part of what makes this instrument so simple to learn. Each handpan is tuned to a particular scale, such as major, natural minor, or harmonic minor. On an eight-note steel handpan, the notes are laid out in a zigzag pattern around the central "ding:".
In this pattern, the lowest note is located at approximately the 6 oclock position and the highest note at the 12 oclock position. You can expect a skillfully hand-crafted handpan to be expensive because of the high-quality materials, time, and extraordinary care put into its creation.
Each one is individually produced and hand-tuned, often to the customers specifications. There are few manufacturers, and these frequently have long waiting lists.
Anything thinner will simply lack the resonant ringing that defines a hang drum. It might even dent and warp as you play. Pro tip: The surface of your instrument also has to be taken care of. This generally means light oiling from time to time, and at least a wipe-down after a long session to keep the sweat on your hands from rusting the instrument. A hang drum is made of 2 steel domes glued together where they meet.
The top dome is hammered into tone areas around a central mound called the ding. The ding should be the deepest and loudest note on your hang drum and should have the most overtones. Pro tip: Strike the ding with different weight and see how it rings. If you love it, keep investigating. These tones areas have small depressions hammered into the center of flattish circles. Striking the depressions should give you the maximum of overtones, while hitting the circles gives a muted sound.
Pro tip: Strike the instrument everywhere. The best hang drum is going to have overtones all over, not just in the centers of the tone fields. In the middle of the bottom dome is the gu, a funnel-shaped hole that helps the whole instrument to resonate with maximum volume. Though normally played sitting on your lap, you can also play the drum vertically and strike the gu for a massive ring. Pro tip: Strike the gu. It should be tuned in complement to the ding and other tones if the whole hang drum is to resonate well.
Bali Steel Pan. Priced affordably, you get real value for money. It looks the part, hand-hammered and rustic, and sounds it too. We love the bright steel sounds, with plenty of overtones all over the instrument.
And you can choose your own scale — what could be better? Your email address will not be published. Joseph is a session musician, writer, and filmmaker from south Florida. He has recorded a number of albums and made numerous short films, as well as contributing music to shorts and commercials.
He doesn't get as much time to practice and play as he used to, but still manages just about! According to Joseph, it just gets harder as you get older; you rely on what you learned decades ago and can play without thinking. Thankfully that's what most producers still want from him. He is a devout gear heat and has been collecting musical instruments all his life. As his wife, Jill, keeps on saying, "You're very good at buying nice instruments, but terrible at selling them!
Find the best hang drum to recommend? Check Price On Amazon. Choose your own scale. A beautiful hand-made rustic look. Solid, beautifully tuned tones. Our rating: 4. Loud, bold sound. Full of overtones that can be controlled. Unique and beautiful design. Great price. Recently I've heard stories of people waiting well over a year from a manufacturer I won't name.
The excuses keep on coming and many are starting to question if this operation is a scam. If waiting up to 6 months or more for a Handpan sounds insufferable, check out some of the options we available for immediate purchase and delivery below. We work closely with handpan makers and manufacturers to make Handpans as easily available to the public as possible.
We have some lovely sounding Handpans available on our store that are hand made with love. Check out our range here. Some of them also have some stunning artwork on them! Unlike many Handpan makers who have 2 to month waiting lists, we do not have a waiting list. We've got instruments in stock and ready for immediate dispatch. Delivery is completely free.
Our mission is to make Handpans as available and affordable as possible for everyone, and for this reason, we provide free express delivery — worldwide. The current estimated delivery time is around 7 - 14 days with free delivery to your door. Over long periods of time though 2 — 5 years , your instrument may shift in tune slightly.
We have found that all of the notes on an aged Handpan will typically shift together. What this means is that over a long period of time your instrument may not be perfectly in tune to Hz Western tuning, but will still be in tune to itself and will sound fine to a hobby player.
With that said, if you would like to have your instrument returned we are happy for you to send your Handpan back to our workshop for a re-tune.
You would be responsible all postage costs and a small re-tune fee. No, a re-tune must be carried out an expert who has experience in tuning these types of instruments. If you have purchased a Handpan from us and it requires a re-tune, please contact us. Because Handpans are made out of metal, direct sunlight can cause them to become so hot that you could cook an egg on it! When the metal heats up, it expands.
This causes the notes of the drum to temporarily become lower. When left in extremely cold temperatures, the opposite will occur and the metal will contract and the notes will become higher pitched. If stored in this way regularly, the pressure on these notes can eventually cause it to go out of tune. It is also very important to never leave it in the sun or outside in harsh weather conditions. If you treat your instrument with love and care, you instrument will stay in tune for many, many years to come.
All of our Handpans come with a soft backpack-style carry case included in the box to make transporting your instrument safer and easier. We also include a hard protective cover to further protect the instrument during delivery.
Worried about shipping? Don't be. Our instruments are secuerly shipped inside a custom made wooden box for maximum protection. The inside of the box is fully padded with Styrofoam. The instrument is wrapped in bubble wrap and then a protective cover is placed over the notes.
The instrument is then placed inside its carry bag and then wedged between more Styrofoam to keep it secure so there's no movement inside the box. You can order confidently knowing that we've never had a Handpan damaged during transport using this packaging method.
Handpans for Sale. So, first things first, we need to clear up that the instrument is not technically called a Hang drum. This is a misnomer. You can read more about the history of the hang here. While the production of the design may have stopped for over 6 years, the demand for this unique instrument certainly did not. Contact them for details via their website.
Since , a variety of alternatives are now available that come in many different forms, each having their own unique sound, quite often at a much more more affordable price. There are two different types of Handpans available:. These instruments usually have a dimple in the middle of each note and generally have a Gu hole on the underside of the instrument. Handpans generally have anywhere between 7 to 12 notes, although 9 note Handpans are the most common.
Tongue Drums Although Tongue drums are technically Handpans as well, rather than having dimples for each note, each note is cut into the drum in a tongue like shape.
The maker can tune the tongues by varying the length of the cuts, or by adding weights to the tongues. These instruments are generally less expensive and come in a lot of different shapes, sizes, and designs. In the video below, Lucius Harvey demonstrates different types of Handpans. The mallets make the drum sound louder and also makes the sound reverberate longer. With all of that said, most of the tongue drums are also significantly less expensive.
This video will quickly help you decide which kind of instrument is for you. The video demonstrates well that the larger the instrument, the better quality of sound is produced. How much do Handpans typically cost? Where to buy Hang Drums for Sale?
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