Inverted Steel Pan Drum

Steel pans first originated in the west indies and evolved from scrap metal used for percussion.

Inverted steel pan drum. 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. 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. 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.

These inverted steel drums or hand pans have similarly hammered notes but are played more by hand than. Tosfogo 13 notes 12 inches steel tongue drum percussion instrument hand pan drum with travel bag music book mallets. Pan drums or hand pans are a very recent musical invention. Today they have become popular all over the world and their unique and charming sound has recently inspired similar inverted models.

Each handpan is tuned to a particular scale such as major natural minor harmonic minor hijaz mixolydian etc.