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14Apr

Handpan or Woodpan?

Woodpan Handpan double side view When wood meet steel something special happen... A.Ingrosso What is the Woodpan® ? Our production chief decided to explore a new sound timbre and quality of handpan mixing a top shell of carbon nitrated steel and a bottom one of precious wood old more than 50 years cured in a special room. After years of research he founded the perfect way to build and create the perfect helmutz resonance from  this handpan instrument that match nature and innovation. If...

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17Mar

The history of the Handpan

In the 2000, in Switzerland, a new musical instrument called Hang comes to life by the company PANart Hangbau AG, composed of the Felix Rohner and Sabina Schärer, which in the 90’ already produced steelpan and ethnical drums of different parts of the world. The Hang, which in Berna dialect means “hand”, consists in two metal half shells glued together. On the top, in the center, there is a main tone in the form of a convex circle called “ding”,...

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