Pan drums or hand pans are a very recent musical invention.
Inverted steel pan drum.
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The handpan or hang is a convex steel drum played with the hands and tuned with multiple notes.
The round steel surface traditionally repurposed from an emptied oil.
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.
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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.
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.
Developed in the year 2000 by swiss company panart the hang or hang drum their melancholic sound bewitches everyone that hears it.