ABOUT THE INSTRUMENT

Handpan BAOPAN with 10 tones tuned in C minor 9 + 1 , featuring a beautiful, soft sound, rich resonances, and long sustain. Ideal for meditative, creative, and dynamic playing.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Diameter: 53 cm
• Number of tones: 10
• Tones: C / G C D D# F G G# C D
• Material: stainless steel

If you plan to travel more frequently with your handpan, we recommend purchasing the protective EVATEK hard-shell case, which will perfectly protect your instrument.

Accessories for handpans can be found below.

INTERESTING FACTS

Handpan, also known as Pantam or Hang drum, is a musical instrument whose roots go back to the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. At that time, in regions of Trinidad and Indonesia, the first attempts at creating melodic instruments from metal (barrels and metal containers) began to appear — these instruments became known as "steeldrum". They featured multiple tones tuned to various scales around their circumference and were usually played with mallets.

The first instruments resembling today’s handpans appeared around the year 2000 in Switzerland — developed by the company Panart, the instrument was named Hang or Hang drum ("hang" means "hand" in the Swiss dialect). Panart no longer produces these instruments, and since then dozens of other manufacturers have gradually emerged.

Handpan is an instrument you can enjoy playing at home on your own, yet it also allows for top-level virtuoso concert performance, and can be combined with other instruments or additional handpans. Learning to play the handpan begins with basic tone-producing techniques and their combinations, elementary rhythmic structures, and later progresses to advanced techniques, more complex rhythmic patterns, and creative improvisation. You can learn all of this in our lessons with Pavel Sedláček.