Vulcan Instrument, A new comer to our family

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Vulcan Instrument, A new comer to our family

As you may know, Kita Pantam is one of the biggest handpan producers around the world with currently making more than 130 instruments monthly. Our focus is on making high quality pantams with fair prices for everyone, however in this article, we want to introduce a new product that is recently added to our portfolio, “VULCAN Over Tone TOUGUE DRUM”. It is made in our sister company, “VULCAN INSTRUMENT” by one of the best Kita tuners.

Tongue Drum
Tongue Drum

If you’re still unfamiliar with tongue drums and its differences with handpans, we suggest that you read Handpan Vs Tongue Drum, which goes through a brief comparison between these 2 instruments.

Vulcan Tongue Drums come in different ranges for different tastes, from scale to color. It is noticeable that Vulcan steel tongue drums are completely tested by our quality supervisor and are guaranteed to provide high quality experience for its players. Like handpans, tongue drums also come in different scales such as HIJAZ, HARMONIC MINOR, INTEGRAL, SALADIN and etc. besides, they come in a wide range of designs and colors that are presented below.

Vulcan tongue drums are commonly designed with 9 notes made on 18 inches heat treated carbon steel material. Our brand-new tongue drums come in series with a specific name and characteristics. Below are some of our most famous series.

Silver Series

Numa Series

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Top 20 Handpan Players Every Player Should Know (Alphabetical Order)

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Top 20 Handpan Players Every Player Should Know

Top 20 Handpan Players Every Player Should Know (Alphabetical Order)

Adrian J Portia

professional drummer/percussionist

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professional drummer/percussionist based in melbourne australia.
Adrian started playing the drums from the age of 10 and touring the country in his father’s band at 12 years of age. Performing every week he gained a lot of experience in his younger years, which helped him become the musician he is today.

Alexandre Lora

Handpan - Pantam player / percussionist / composer

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Grammy nominated artist in 2017, running for “Best World Music Album” category, with Anat Cohen and Trio Brasileiro: “Rosa dos Ventos”.
Member of Trio Brasileiro, Caraivana group and Irmãos Lora project, Alexandre is constantly travelling to perform inside Brasil, in the US and Europe.

Archer & Tripp

Handpan players and Tearchers

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Together, Archer & Tripp have over 20 years’ experience of playing handpan. Samantha’s classical training during her child and teenage years in piano, clarinet and vocals allowed her distinctive and instinctive sense for melody to flower into a skill for both improvisation and composition.

Dan Mulqueen

American multi-instrumentalist

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Dan Mulqueen is an American multi-instrumentalist from New Jersey. Dan’s music is centered around an instrument called the “Handpan”, an instrument created in 2001 in Switzerland. This instrument allows the player to create a rh ythm and a melody simultaneously using only the hands. Determined to push the limits of music revolving around this instrument, Dan’s playing style is both beautifully melodic and intensely percussive.

David Charrier

multi-instrumentalist and Tutor

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As a multi-instrumentalist, I’m passionate about rhythms and melodies. In 2004, I discovered the handpan, a unique ‘sound sculpture’ with enchanting tones. My study of this instrument and my desire to compose have allowed me to share my music throughout the world. Whether as a solo artist, part of a duo, or with a bigger group, I love to show my passion and help people to discover this instrument.

Francis Leclerc

Handpan player

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Francis learned to open himself to new horizons over time and it is through multiple periods of introspection that he began the formation of his ideal. This brought a series of events that would change his daily life and guide him towards awakening. A personal awakening, but especially passionate. It was when he discovered handpan that he knew music would guide his life.

Gabriele Pollina

Handpan player and drummer

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Gabriele Pollina is a Handpan player and drummer from Italy. His music style combines Handpan Music and electronic beats played live with percussive electro pedals. In 2016 he started a music trip throughout Australia, Asia and Europe, during this journey he has had the possibility to discover and be influenced by different musical cultures and styles, playing with multiple musicians around the world.

Jacob Cole

professional musician, drummer, teacher, world percussionist

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The way he introduces himself: “I’m a professional musician, drummer, teacher, world percussionist and proud father, rooted in Northeast Pa, I’ve been playing music since the age of 7 and have been teaching for over 10 years.  I’m a Berklee College of Music grad and have had the incredible opportunity to play with some of the finest musicians.  I hope I can either inspire or move you through my music.  Music is my way to meditate & give back to this world, it’s my soul’s gift.  I love to perform and teach others to do the same.”

Jeremy Nattagh

multi-instrumentalist

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Multi-instrumentalist and ingenious of sound, Jérémy Nattagh has brought together all his influences and experiences in a unique show, Panoramic. Surrounded by his 4 hangs and his drums played on the feet, he will take you into the intoxication of ethnic grooves, acoustic trance and the lyricism of his compositions.

Kabecao

Inspirational Handpan Player. Teacher.

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exploring music and sound with his unique, poetic, and percussive style, he pushed forward the art form and extended the musical universe of handpans/pantams.

He was a boy when, with percussions and rhythm, Kabeção fell in love for sound exploring. Self-taught, he never stopped since then to experiment different types of instruments – from strings to woodwinds – combining eclectic influences and his very personal approach to sound into powerful music. 

Laura Inserra

sound alchemist

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Laura Inserra is a sound alchemist. She lives and creates at the confluence of music from around the globe, wisdom practices, and cutting-edge technology. Her career has had many facets —  multi-instrumentalist, music teachersound therapistcomposer, and producer.

Laurent Sureau

Handpan Player, Percussionist, Multi-instrumentalist, Teacher

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Aurent grew up in a musical family and his passion for music started early. He began learning piano at the age of 6, then expanded his range of skills by studying percussion: classic and contemporary first (timpani, vibraphone, etc.), then drums from various continents (congas, cajon, West African balafon) and drums, chromatic balafon, Hang and handpans.

Marcel Hutter

musician and handpan player

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As he says: “I am a musician and handpan player from Linz (located in Austria/Europe).” He got his first handpan in 2012 and because there was no one who could have taught him how to play at that time, he started self-learning. About this experience he always says that: “A completely new chapter of my life began, because of my (seemingly) endless passion for these instruments, and now I am travelling around the world while my collection of handpans is growing more and more.”

Mayiia

singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist

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Mayiia is a German singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist. Her compositions move between jazz, pop, ambient and world music. Wide landscapes and moving surfaces that interweave and dissolve again.

Mumi

multi-instrumentalist, singer, handpan player

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Mumi is an Italian multi-instrumentalist, singer, and above all else, a Handpan player and maker. Her musical path started when she was just five years old when she started training as a classical pianist. She delved further into music history and theory, graduating from a school of music.

Nadishana

multi-instrumentalist, composer and sound designer

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Nadishana is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and sound designer from Siberia, who creates his own unique and innovative approach to world fusion music – the creative synthesis of different musical traditions of the world on the basis of contemporary technologies. He plays on more than 200 instruments of the world, including self-created ones.

Titouan Gautier

multi-instrumentalist

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Handpan played solo, with Epock (beatbox), Ogma (harp) and others

Tom Vaylo

Handpan player

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Tom Vaylo is an acoustic musician since his very young age (flute, saxophone, guitar, Handpan, percussions,…..) who then got into electronic music. In his quest for new ways of sharing his love for music, and taking the audience with him on a musical trip, he now mixes both, adding handpan playing to track living on stage, each track being inspired by one of his own travel.

Valerio Menon

Italian Handpan player, maker and tuner

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Valerio Menon is an Italian Handpan player, maker and tuner based in Switzerland. So far, he played over 200 concerts in 12 different states, produced 3 cd’s (the last one also distributed in USA by AllAgainstOne Records) and since 2017 works, as a maker and tuner, for EchoSoundSculpture.

Waagal

multi-instrumentalist

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Waagal can be called a “one man band” from multi-instrumentalist Erwann Texier-Harth. Guitar, didgeridoo, handpans, kashaka, kalimba and others instruments are played simultaneously to create a solo performance where the musician keeps pushing his limits. Drawing from music and cultures around the world, Waagal mix thousand-year-old sounds and innovating rhythms.

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Handpan and Therapy

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Handpan and Therapy

Handpan and Therapy

Sound therapy

During the 21st century, alternative therapies become more and more famous and prominent and sound therapy (also known as sound healing) is not an exception. During the past decades, people became aware of healing ability of music and used it a lot. But sound and vibration can also have an impact on mental health and be used as a healing assistant. Sound therapy is kind of therapy that comes from science of vibration, resonance and frequency. Each sound/note possesses a special vibration and frequency that we can feel.

Healing with Handpan

Handpan is one of the best candidates when it comes to sound therapy, because handpans have great resonance and through their convex, their sounds emanate in all directions, filling the whole room with vibration and resonance at once. Handpan is one of the few instruments that is tuned with 1:2:3 frequency ratio, it means there are 3 frequencies in each note anytime it is played. The frequency ratio is important in sound healing.

Sense and perception: researchers have found out that the human brain likes to simplify frequency ratios when it hears it. In fact the frequency of a Handpan is as simple as it can be, therefor it has a great healing impact on humans’ brain. The signal frequency that our ears get and send it to our brain convey the feeling of relaxation and safety.

The vibration of Handpans is also useful for healing. Basically entrainment in music happens when an object vibrates at a specific frequency, for example when a Handpan vibrates near the human body, after a short time, the object with lower vibration (human body) starts to vibrating as same as powerful vibrator (handpan). So this phenomenon gives the Handpan the ability to release us energetically and physically from stress and tension we are storing in the body.

handpan in your hands
handpan in your hands

Kitapantam is ready to offer what you deserve, world class quality Handpans with fair prices and rather short waiting time. For more information, please visit our available instruments page or send us an inquiry on the Order page. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask, you may contact us via the contact form below or send us an email to [email protected].

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handpan history when , where and how?

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Handpan history, when, where and how?

Handpan history, when, where and how?

Handpan, Pantam, hang drum or sound-sculpture are the names for a rather young musical instruments family. They are made with steel and are consist of 2 convex steel shells that are glued together. In this article we are going to look at this instrument history and explain some interesting information about it.

When and where was handpan/pantam invented?

The path of hang drum development is a combination of a few historical instruments, some of which are very old and some are more recent. In fact we can call handpan/pantam a global instrument because many countries’ musical culture have been involved in its development journey.The first hang was invented by Felix Rohner and Sabina Schärer from PANArt Hangbau AG in Bern, Switzerland. The two were steel pan builders and invertor of different musical instruments. In the late 1990’s, Reto Weber, a musician, contacted Felix Rohner and Sabina Schärer and explained his idea about a new instrument that is made of steel and looks like a pot with some notes on. He wanted to combine the sound of Ghatam, which is an Indian instrument and the steel pan. The experiment began and they made something which was called “Mother Hang”. The word “HANG” came from Bernese German word for Hand. The output was surprisingly good so Felix and his colleague stopped making steel pans and started focusing on creating the First generation of handpans which was originally called HANG (between 2001 to 2005). They presented the very first instrument at Frankfurt and it became viral later on 2005 when people found some playing videos of it on YouTube. 

The HANG was being offered in approximately 45 different scales and sound models, which were focused mostly on ethnic musical scales like Ake bono, Hijaz, Pygmy, Melog and Zhi Diao.  The first generation Hangs had 7 to 8 tone fields on a circle around a center note being tuned only on F3, E3 and Eb 3. Later on some new generations with many changes were release up until 2013 when PANArt announced that the Hang would no longer be made.

As of then, many makers around the world started creating these musical instruments with the same concept but some changes and called them Handpan, Pantam or sound-sculpture.

The way the invention of this musical instrument influenced the world of the music enthusiast was so astounding and the market faced a big volume of demand in the years right after PANArt stopped making them. The first makers received so many requests in a way they also had to stop getting more orders and will be making the requested line of orders for many years after. Since then, the number of the makers are increasing everyday all around the world responding to the demand for this magical instrument globally.

Kita also, as one of the first makers in this region, started making Handpans since 2017 and has showed continuous growth in terms of quality and manufacturing capability since then.

Handpan history

If you are thinking to join the club and start this wonderful journey of learning and playing Pantams together with this raising number of enthusiasts all around the world, KitaPantam is ready to offer what you deserve, world class quality Handpans with fair prices and rather short waiting time. For more information please visit our available instruments page or send us an inquiry on the Order page. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask, you may contact us via the contact form below or send us an email to [email protected].

 

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Handpan vs tongue drum

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Handpan vs tongue drum

Handpan vs tongue drum

Handpan or togue drum? This is one of the most frequently asked questions that we face every day, many people want to know what are the differences between these two instruments and which one fits their needs better. In this article, we are going to provide some points in this regard.

Basically, in spite of some similarities, they are two totally different musical instruments. Pantams have more clear tone and magical bright ceramic and smooth sound with mid to high range of sustain (resonate), while tongue drums have more like a blur sound with long sustain. handpans are made with different materials being suitable for different playing styles and environment vibes including indoor fast professional playing to outdoor slow meditative styles, while tongue drums are known for only more slow and meditative playing. Moreover, Handpans can be more flexible than tongue drums, for example you can get up to 22 notes on a Handpan but the notes on tongue drums are limited.

Handpan vs tongue drum
Handpan vs tongue drum

Although Tongue drums are in general smaller in size but much heavier than Handpans (hang drums) since they are made of thicker steel sheets. Besides the Handpans standard size range is 18-23 inches, so sometimes a small Handpan (mini handpan) can be in a size of a tongue drum but still much lighter and having of course a different sound.

Due to the much more complexities in making Handpans, their price is much higher than the tongue drums, but as mentioned at the beginning, these two are totally different instruments and paying less doesn’t mean you will be able to get the same thing.

Tone Fields

This is where handpans and tongue drums become different in a noticeable way. The tone field or the notes that you play will look completely different. The handpan containing dimples and dings, with no piercing of the steel, while the steel tongue drum tongues will be cut into the steel, in a variety of shapes.

Overall, Handpans and tongue drums comparison seems like comparing apple and orange, both round and almost same shape but completely different fruits with different taste and nutrition. We want to say, if you are interested in Handpans, then you should get one and never think that you will be able to get something similar while spending less. Likewise you might be interested in tongue drums and again in this case a Handpan cannot be an alternative.

We hope you find these information useful and this article can help you decide if you are thinking between a Handpan and a tongue drum.If you know that you want a high quality Handpan with a fair price, please visit our available instrument page to see our latest available instruments for sale. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask, you may contact us via the contact form below or send an email to [email protected]Stay tuned😊

Handpan vs tongue drum
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What is the difference between Nitraded and Stainless Steel Handpans/Pantams

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What is the difference between Nitraded and Stainless Steel Handpans/Pantams

Nitraded handpan vs Stainless handpan

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Nitraded handpan and stainless comparison

The other advantage stainless steel offers over the nitrated is being non corrosive. So basically they do not need to be covered by protective oils all the time, while nitrated instruments should always be protected by oil in order to avoid being rusted.

For better comparisons and hearing the sound and quality of kitapantam instruments made by both type of these materials, please check our YouTube channel, where many videos of different materials with different scales Pantams are uploaded.

Please contact us if you need further information or have more questions.

 Nitraded handpan vs Stainless handpan.Handpans, Pantams and hangdrums are normally made of three type of materials, raw steel, nitraded steel and stainless steel. Raw steel is among them less common because it does not offer enough stability and becomes detuned more easily.

Nitrated handpan series have more clear tones and mid-range sustain, in contrast stainless steel instruments have long-range sustain and each note when it is touched can be heard in its original, fifth and octave notes. Due to this type of characteristics, stainless steel handpans are more appropriate for slow playing melodies and are perfect for meditative and sound healing applications, while nitraded steel ones are better for fast and more professional playing.

nitraded steel handpan

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