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.

Inverted steel pan drum.

These inverted steel drums or hand pans have similarly hammered notes but are played more by hand than. 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. Steel pans first originated in the west indies and evolved from scrap metal used for percussion. The handpan or hang is a convex steel drum played with the hands and tuned with multiple notes.

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. Sootop steel tongue drum lotus hand pan drum percussion instruments with drum mallets carry bag for music therapists performances price 109. Developed in the year 2000 by swiss company panart the hang or hang drum their melancholic sound bewitches everyone that hears it.

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