Today they have become popular all over the world and their unique and charming sound has recently inspired similar inverted models.
Inverted steel pan drum.
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.
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The handpan or hang is a convex steel drum played with the hands and tuned with multiple notes.
These inverted steel drums or hand pans have similarly hammered notes but are played more by hand than.
Each handpan is tuned to a particular scale such as major natural minor harmonic minor hijaz mixolydian etc.
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 round steel surface traditionally repurposed from an emptied oil.
Pan drums or hand pans are a very recent musical invention.
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