Buy a hang drum

What you need:

• Address of the manufacturer
• patience
• happiness

How to buy a hang drum

• To buy a new hang, it is first necessary to write a letter to the manufacturers. The waiting time can last from a few months to years, as the instruments are only made by 2 people and there is great demand.

• Attention: To write Do not use "Hang Drum" in your letter, as from the manufacturer's point of view it is a sound sculpture and not a drum. Before writing the letter, it is advisable that you do a little research on the manufacturers' philosophy in order to find a suitable tone of voice and appropriate personal words.

• The following quote is suitable to familiarize you with the way manufacturers think: "Our work is not geared towards musical standards that require study, practice and performance. Hang play can lead to a form of freedom that defies all pressure and coercion. Individuals who are aware of this are strengthened by the hang game. Careless use, on the other hand, can weaken. "(According to Wikipedia)
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• The address of the manufacturer is: PANArt Hangbau AG, Engehaldenstr. 131, 3012 Bern / Switzerland, Tel.: +41 31 301 33 32, E-Mail: [email protected]

• Another option is to search in classified ads, eBay, or music stores. However, this can be very time consuming. If you have found a slope, it is then important to determine what type of slope it is. There are 5 different hang types.


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Types of hillside

• The 1. Generation (worldwide approx. 4300) was built from 2001 to 2005, there are 8 tones in the tone circle and there are 30 to 45 different sound models with ethnomusical scales, whereby the fundamental thing thing A3 or G3, rarely also F3, is.

• From 2006 to 2007 the 2. Generation built (more than 826 copies) with the technical innovation that the brass surface makes it less prone to detuning. Instead of ethnomusical scales, these slopes have a tonal basic structure: it is D3 as Fundamental tone (thing), A3, D4 & A4 - the other tones were chosen by the hang builders when tuning the instrument chosen. Only tone scales were chosen that fit well into the overall sound of the Hang. From 2007 the clay field ellipses were rotated by about 45 °.

• The so-called "Gudu" was built from 2004 to 2007 and is characterized by an additional, smaller opening on the underside (which is referred to as "Du"). The name Gudu was chosen because Du & Gu work together to create Udu-like sounds. When it is not needed, the you hole can be closed with a magnetic plate.

• The Integral Hang was built from 2008 and is characterized by a simply detached Ding dome and a brass coating only on the Ding dome & the Gu neck. There is only 1 sound model of this hang type: the fundamental thing thing in D3 is combined with the notes A3, B3, A4, F4, C4, E4.

• The Free Integral Hang has been in production since April 2010 and differs from the integral Hang in that the half-shells are no longer surrounded by a brass ring at the glued seam. The Ding dome also has no brass coating and is set off twice ("triple dome"). This slope is tuned in without the aid of tuners and thus the frequency of the thing differs from instrument to instrument - it varies around the volume D3. The other tones are chosen in terms of the distance to the fundamental tone according to the integral slope.