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440 Hz or 432 Hz in a handpan: what's the difference?

In your search for the right handpan, you've probably come across it before. Besides the choice of tuning, material and number of tones, you also have the choice between different frequencies. The most common ones here are 440Hz and 432Hz. We regularly get questions about this. Sometimes simply asking what it means, but sometimes [...]

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Names of handpicked voices

Understanding all the differences within the world of handpan can still be quite a challenge. First, of course, you have the choice of stainless steel, ember steel or nitrided steel. Then you have all sorts of differences in fundamental tones, ranging from a lovely low F2 to a crisp high F3 (or even higher). Then you also have [...]

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From craft to brand: the story of Chaya®

The story behind the Chaya handpan The story of Chaya is one of extraordinary coincidences, an unlikely meeting between two passionate handpan enthusiasts: its creator, Rastislav Belko, and Henk-Jan Pelle, the owner of HandPanShop. In this blog, we take you on the journey of these two handpan enthusiasts towards creating a unique musical instrument [...].

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Where does the handpan come from?

The handpan is based on the Hang®. This instrument was designed by Felix Rohner and Sabina Scharer of the Swiss firm PANart, a steel-drum manufacturer. The name Hang® is Bern dialect for the word “hand”. This Hang® was introduced in 2000, after years of studying metal instruments. When the patent expired in 2012, they stopped [...]