White Handpan

Join local meetups to improve your handpan skills

In many European cities, local handpan meetups are held regularly in cafés, event venues, or coworking spaces. These informal gatherings, advertised on Facebook and Meetup groups, bring together amateurs and professionals for a friendly jam session. Everyone brings their instrument, shares playing tips, swaps graphic notation, and hosts quick intro mini-workshops. These events encourage connection, collective progress, and shared inspiration. They’re also a great way to try new models, discover advanced techniques—rolls, flats, and muting techniques—and get personalised feedback. Join a local handpan meetup and order your instrument to be part of this musical movement today.

Combine several handpans to create unique harmonies

The original Hang, created in 2000 by PANArt, has not been available new since 2014, but its influence lives on in today’s handpans. Handcrafted from nitrided steel shells, each has a single scale, but it is possible to combine several instruments with different tunings for complementary harmonies in sound therapy. Depending on the location—an alpine garden, a yoga studio in Paris, or a meditation centre in Berlin—these handpan ensembles create a rich soundscape, using fundamental frequencies, octaves, and fifths to induce deep relaxation. Music therapy practitioners use this technique to enhance well-being and promote mental cohesion. Treat yourself to this symphony of vibrations and purchase several handpans for a customised sound experience.

Master the harmony of the handpan with the 1:2:3 ratio

The magic of the handpan lies in the 1:2:3 harmonic ratio: the fundamental, the octave, and the compound fifth. By modulating these three frequencies, each note produces a natural and captivating resonance. This approach, inherited from the first steelpans developed by Ellie Mannette and perfected by Winston Spree Simon in the 1960s, was adopted by PANArt for the Hang in 2000. Victor Levinson, with his SPB handpan, introduced the systematic tuning of “shoulder tones” (second octave on the edges of the notes) in 2013, followed by Ezhan of Echo Sound Sculpture. The result is an instrument offering a rich and deep harmonic palette, ideal for meditation, composition, and sound therapy. Understand and explore this 1:2:3 harmonic relationship by ordering your handpan today.

Take part in Vivaan, the handpan and Indian culture festival

Vivaan, the handpan and Indian culture festival, is held at Shoonya Farm Retreat, near Belgaum in India. Created by Dipak Thakkar, founder of MusiCurry and the Handpan India Community since 2017, this event offers a unique fusion of handpan music and local traditions. Dipak, a self-taught banjo, handpan, and keyboard player, has invited international and Indian artists such as Pt. Ronu Majumdar (flute), Aditya Kalyanpur (tabla), Jeremy Nattagh, Carola Ortiz (clarinet), Martin Dubois (kora and overtone singing), and Tatsunori Hara. The programme includes fusion concerts, percussion workshops, traditional singing workshops, kundalini yoga, and cultural heritage tours. Craft stalls highlight the diversity of the local music scene, and participants can meet handpan makers on site. Bring your handpan or try those available on site and immerse yourself in the Vivaan adventure today.

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Free delivery: if you live in Ireland, delivery is free.

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Delivery time: orders are delivered to Ireland within 3–14 business days. This time frame may be extended to 30 days for other countries.