Inverted Steel Pan Drum

Pan drums or hand pans are a very recent musical invention.

Inverted steel pan drum.

Each handpan is tuned to a particular scale such as major natural minor harmonic minor hijaz mixolydian etc. Tosfogo 13 notes 12 inches steel tongue drum percussion instrument hand pan drum with travel bag music book mallets. The handpan or hang is a convex steel drum played with the hands and tuned with multiple notes. 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.

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. Today they have become popular all over the world and their unique and charming sound has recently inspired similar inverted models. The round steel surface traditionally repurposed from an emptied oil. 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.

These inverted steel drums or hand pans have similarly hammered notes but are played more by hand than.