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.

Inverted steel pan drum.

Developed in the year 2000 by swiss company panart the hang or hang drum their melancholic sound bewitches everyone that hears it. 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. 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. Tosfogo 13 notes 12 inches steel tongue drum percussion instrument hand pan drum with travel bag music book mallets. Each handpan is tuned to a particular scale such as major natural minor harmonic minor hijaz mixolydian etc. Today they have become popular all over the world and their unique and charming sound has recently inspired similar inverted models.

Steel pans first originated in the west indies and evolved from scrap metal used for percussion.