We bring this sweet little 4-minute video featuring a Spacedrum handpan duet played next to Mary's Lake in Estes Park, Colorado, by a brother-and-sister duo: Now here's the BIG question: Can you make beautiful music on a handpan as a beginner? We...
San Francisco based Sound practitioner Lydia Hwang recently gave our Monochord Monday Meetup Zoom group a super treat by demonstrating how she layers the Monolina Monochords along with the Klangfarben Hanging Chimes. (Join our meetup group to access.) She also offered...
We're proud to have collaborated over the years with many incredible music composers who find our instruments - with their unique sonic qualities including tone, timbre, harmonics, natural acoustic sustain and effects - to offer complexity, nuance, and sonic beauty to...
This month we're highlighting the feeltone Company. (And no, that's not a typo: feeltone is always written with a lower-case f! :) We're making a joyful noise with feeltone as the company celebrates its 40th anniversary this year! That's 40 years of honing the...
A Fond Farewell to Metal Sounds It is with a heavy heart that we share the news that one of our beloved partners, Metal Sounds, has come to the end of their instrument-making journey. Based in France, Metal Sounds spent...
Learn all about these beautiful sound wonders crafted out the finest materials in a solar-powered family run factory in Germany, and how WE PLAY WELL TOGETHER has brought them to the American Market to the delight of music makers. We're...
Join us next month at SUPER BLOOM: a Women’s Handpan Gathering taking place May 13th-15th located at Peace Temple in the Catskills Mountains near Hancock, New York. “We aim to bring women handpan players and enthusiasts together for a relaxing weekend...
Blow the trumpets! Strum the monochords! Bang on handpans, tongue-drums and Tinka Tongs! Send in choirs singing songs of joy while plucking on kalimbas! We have a new look: Yes, we've brightened ourselves up to big, bold, modern colors. But...
We're heartbroken by the brutal, devastating violence that has taken place in Ukraine over the past two weeks. While this (any) war has layers of complexity stemming from centuries of history, it's difficult to deny that a great many people are suffering...
