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February 14th, 2008 at 8:52 am
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March 12th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Hello. I am from France, i am 27, sorry for my bad english. I am interested in buy one hang. Can you send me the prices conditions?
Thanks
Regards
Jeremie Bonamant
March 12th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Hi Jeremie,
no I cannot send you the price conditions because this is not PANArt’s website. I’m a Hang player sharing his knowledge about the Hang. All I know about how to buy a Hang, I wrote in the article How do I acquire a Hang?.
March 13th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
hello, im from portugal and im intrested in acquire a hang. can you help me? tank you
March 13th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Information is the only help I can give: How do I acquire a Hang?
March 30th, 2008 at 7:26 am
hello michael,
first of all great job on the blog, and your objective moderation skills…
i was wondering, if one were to show up at the hanghaus without an invitation, would they be refused a hang drum? i am a musician from the states and i’m ready to plan my trip… but i must plan well in advance and am worried about not being able to work around their timeframe. i wouldn’t want to ruin my chances of getting a hang by not following correct procedure, but there is only a small window of time when i can go. please help!
thanks very much,
alex
March 30th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Hi alex,
did you get a letter from PANArt with the agreement and did you send the signed agreement back? In this case I would contact PANArt to question, wether it is possible to fetch your Hang during your planned journey and get an appointment in this timeframe. If this isn’t possible it can be the better choice for you to get your Hang shipped.
If you didn’t get the letter with the agreement, I wouldn’t show up in the Hangbauhaus without appointment. I don’t think, that they would refuse you to acquire a Hang forever, but your visit would be in vain because they wouldn’t sell you a Hang at that time. In this case I would write your first contact letter to PANArt and wait for an answer and in my point of view there is only a very little chance to get your Hang this year.
For my whole view on how to acquire a Hang read this article. To discuss the topic with others visit the Hang-Music Forum.
May 6th, 2008 at 11:43 am
thanks for make thisblog, there are a lot of people hungry for know somehtink!
a huge mich
May 14th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Hello,
i would dearly love to purchase one of each model if
possible,can you help?.
As lifetime percussionist ,i would like something like this to
take into my latter years.
Thank you
roger morris
May 14th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Hi roger,
just read my comment numbered 5. ;-)
May 20th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
HELLO, I JUST HAPPEND TO HEAR THIS INSTRUMENT ON YOUTUBE AND MY HEART DROP, I COULD BELIEVE MY EYES THAT SOUND IS RECORDED IN MY HEAD IS AMAZING, I WILL LIKE TO KNOW WERE CAN I PURCHASE THIS INSTRUMENT. IM A MUSICAN FROM ARGENTINA BUT I LEAVE IN CALIFORNIA FOR 15 YRS, I MUST GET ONE OF THIS PLEASE REPLY…
THANK YOU SO MUCH
May 20th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
The information you want is already on this page. Please read it. I cannot do this for you.
May 27th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
I am traveling in Germany and want to take a Hang back to Mexico
I am in the Munich area, hopefuly you can help, DO YOU KNOW OF ANYBODY SELLING HANG DRUMS IN MUNICH????
thankyou very much
Armando
May 27th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Hi armando loizaga,
you can buy new Hanghang only from PANArt directly. It is extremly seldom that a music shop sells a used Hang. Used Hanghang are mostly selled from the owner directly. The best advice is to write a post in the Hang-Music Forum.
May 29th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
is there a patent on this? if so whats the number
May 29th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Hi nathan lange,
as far as I know there is patent on the PANG instruments, the precursors of the Hang (Verfahren zur Herstellung von Blechklang-Musikinstrumenten).
May 29th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
yeah i had a search done on patents for it and they didnt have one and the other question is do you know how thick does the carbinzed steel has to be on the inside or do you know of any blue prints by chance thanks alot buddy and do you work for them cause you seem to know enough.
May 29th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Hi nathan lange,
you want to copy the Hang? Blue prints wouldn’t help you. It is not the shape that makes a Hang. There are published information about building and tuning of the Hang. You should study all these information carefully. And you will need years of experience in the tuning of steel. And: No I’m not working for PANArt.
July 9th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Hello. Today I have found the instrument with the soul. I want to know, how I can get hang drum. I’ m from Poland.
July 10th, 2008 at 9:43 am
thanks for your patience with everyone, brother :)
July 10th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Hi Harry,
the information you want is in the Hangblog. Please use the navigation bar.
Hi kiel,
yes brother, patience is obviously necessary if someone runs a Hangblog ;-)
August 4th, 2008 at 10:33 am
i am very interested to play hang drun. i play african djembe that i create. let me know!
thank you
August 12th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Hi!
I was inspired and overwhelmed with facts reading the above article! As I have only really just discovered the Hang this was a great knowledge base to find out about the instrument and the makers! Well done on a really informative blog!
I see that any chance of actually getting my hands on a Hang is pretty much impossible! It says that they have filled the quota for the Hang from all the letters they received in late 07 and early 08. Where do we send letters? I could not find an address for PANArt? I would even be willing to go to Berne to pick it up (although it isn’t needed anymore!) I could treat it as a spiritual holiday! :)
I understand it is a very fine art making these unique instruments and it seems that demand for them is extremely high! I live in hope that one day I will be able to Ding the hours away :)
Consider your blog well and truely bookmarked Michael and keep up the great work!
(i was going to finish with ‘Hang on in there’…but it was just too cheesy!)
Jonnie
August 13th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Hi Jonnie,
the address for PANArt you can find in the article “How do I acquire a Hang?”.
August 25th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Hi Michael,
Thanks for the great reference pages. I recently bought an older hang, smaller than most we see now, 7 notes, relatively high-pitched compared to bigger hangs – and I’m not sure of the scale type (haven’t heard it on any sound model tracks). The PANArt logo is engraved toward the outer edge of the ding side, but there is no engraved serial number. Any idea of which hang this might be, or its worth? I paid 1,300 Swiss Francs, maybe way too much, but I had the chance to get this one now rather than wait on Panart’s list for a year. The scale has a “mystical” sound but also some Latin and Afro/Caribbean progressions can be drawn from it. Any insight much appreciated!
All the best,
Yonatan
September 1st, 2008 at 11:14 am
Salve, vorrei alcune notizie su come e dove acquistare un hang drum… Grazie
September 1st, 2008 at 11:30 am
Ciao Stefano,
Vi è un inglese e un tedesco articolo della Hangblog.
Qui si può chiedere in italiano.
September 2nd, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Thank you so very much for the site. Do you think that a person who has NO musical skill and is advanced in age (i.e. over 50) could learn to play this instrument? Not of course for anything more than the sheer pleasure of the sound and vibrational force. Thank you again, well done.
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Hi Linda,
this is a very personal question and can’t be answered generally. Why should it be impossible? There are people without experience in playing any musical instrument before who are very satisfied with the Hang. And there are others who sold their Hang because they didn’t play it after they got it. I think the best counselor is your own feeling. If you feel a strong whish to play the Hang, go for it. Some people need some time to become familiar with their Hang and others got a connection immediately. It is very different with different persons. If you want to get other points of view on this topic, you can visit the Hang-Music Forum.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Hi Linda
I am over 50, with very little musical skills and I am one of the few lucky ones that managed to get on the buyers list for 2008. I have already paid the Hangmakers and I am eagerly waiting delivery. I heard one Hang being played in the Barrio Gotico in Barcelona in November 2006, fell in love with it and immediately decided to have one. I also am only looking for “the sheer pleasure of the sound and vibrational force”, as you so well put it, and I really hope that I will be able “tie the knot” with the instrument. Once I do get it I will return to this forum to describe what it feels like, for me, to play one.
Regards to all and thanks to Michael for the opportunity to use this forum
September 10th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Hi to everyone! i don’t know the hang since long and here in Italy seems very new … i sow it in Mexico and like it sooo much!! i play drums but really dream to play one Hang.
Can you please inform me on it possible cost and if there is any other way to get it before 1 year?!?
Thanks to give us some more indication on the subject
September 14th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
this blog is great, i only heard the Hang live once, and that was here in Oostende (Belgium) this summer, it was played bij a Spanish street musician, and i really loved the sound and fell in love with it.
I finally got the time to look arround on the internet, and found your super blog, what a load of information you have here, it really is super. Well i guess i’ll gave to try and get on that waiting list.
thx for all the info, this got me as far as i needed, besides getting the Hang itself. If i evver succeed in buying one, you’ll be one of the first to know about it.
thx again, and carry on with this great blog
all the best,
peter
September 14th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Hi frankie,
look at the article “How do I acquire a Hang?”
Hi peter,
nice to read that the Hangblog ist helpful. Good luck and a lot of patience for you.
September 15th, 2008 at 5:58 am
Hi guys just want to know how can I get a Hang drum Can toy please give me any info. about it ? thanks alot. Cheers!!!!!!
September 15th, 2008 at 8:19 am
Hi Ricardo,
look at my answer to frankie just a few lines above ;-)
October 7th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
hola soy de argentina necesitaria saber que porecios y que posibilidades tengo de adquirir este maravillosos instrumento por favor necesito todo tipo de informacion para saber si puedo obtenerlo gracias
October 7th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Hola Oswaldo Suarez,
hay un Inglés y un alemán artículo acerca de su pregunta en el Hangblog. Si usted no entiende Inglés o alemán, puede pedir información aquí.
October 19th, 2008 at 12:47 am
Hello Michael,
Thank you for providing this informative blog. I recently had the opportunity to play a hang and it is truly a magical experience. I will practice patience and submit my request letter for hopefully obtaining one after they return from there proposed break. Would you mind posting the PANArt address one needs to use to send mail to. Thanks for your time!
October 19th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Hi Amber,
the address is in this article.
November 4th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Hi Everyone, i’ve noticed that a lot of folks are in love with this hard to get instrument. A few tips for those who didn’t know already: In Germany is a manufacturer of a so called Caisa drum (check out on you tube) there approx.€900 . Another steelpan maker is starting to sell a very good alternative called a Halo (patheonsteel.com) they also have a waiting list allready but they ship allover the globe!.Another nice creative try is the Hank drum. use these keywords and do your benifit.
Good luck to all ya’ll!
November 6th, 2008 at 9:42 am
Hi Kees,
some further information are necessary to understand the differences between the instruments you mentioned in your comment and the Hang.
The CAISA is a convex steel pan played with the hands. Its instrument design is different to the Hang. It has no cavity reacting like a Helmholtz resonator, and no gong like central dome like the Ding resonating with it. The steel used is not nitrided. The overtone tuning is different to the Hang and the tone fields are separated from the areas between by lines of little holes drilled around them while the tone fields of the Hang have soft edge conditions. Besides these technical differences the personal approach of the tuners to the tuning process and their decisions and abilities how to control the dozends of parameters that influence the sound of tuned steel plates are responsible that the Caisa and the Hang sound quite different. Many Hang players say that the Caisa isn’t comparable with the Hang. Some other like it. So everybody has to check it out and decide himself.
The HALO is a new instument annouced by the US Steelpan manufacturer Pantheon Steel. By now no photo and no sound recording of a Halo was published by Pantheon Steel. Kyle Cox from Pantheon Steel told that the instrument layout will be very similar to the Hang. It was also told that production shall start in the beginning of 2009 and that there is a list of about 1600 potential buyers. Because the sound of a instrument of tuned steel is mainly influenced by the approach and abilities of the tuner, nobody is currently able to estimate whether the Halo will be a Hang alternative or not. We will have to wait until the Halo is really brought in existence and can be seen, heared and touched.
The HANK DRUM is a not an instrument of tuned steel sheets like the Hang, Caisa or Halo. It was invented by Dennis Havlena who was inspired by the way the Hang is played. He used new propane tanks and cut a tone circle of tongues into the surface. The size of the tongues causes the tone pitch. Dennis Havlena’s approach to the hank drum was to invent an instrument that can be selfmade. It sounds very different to the Hang and the overtones which are generated by the metal tongues can not be controlled like the the overtones of a Hang tone field. In the meanwhile Dennis Havlena’s instrument concept was act on by several manufacturers. Some of them built a more Hang like shape of their instruments but this doesn’t make the sound more similar.
November 22nd, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Hi my name is Manuel Im a professional drummer & percusionist “Prod manager for drums cymbal and percussion” working in Hermes Music Mexico we have distribution of all the best brands in Mexico ,Im a clinician and teacher too ,I love to play drum & bass jungle, dub….Since the first time I heard the hang it make me crazy, now I wanna buy one of them, can you give a quote and how long you will take to send one to mexico?
One love…positive vibes ….for ever
November 23rd, 2008 at 2:43 am
Hi Manuel
the Hangblog and I are not involved in the distribution of the Hang. The Hangblog can only provide information. How you can acquire a Hang you can read in the article “How do I acquire a Hang?”
December 8th, 2008 at 2:21 am
Help my,to find a hang shop,because i love his sound,and i realy want to buy one.Please!!!!
Thank you
December 13th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
you got a good set of information out in this post. thanks for doing the work. i too just heard of this now and am getting one – will get one. finland to switzerland i can probably blag somehow, the rest is a case of saving.
i take it you also checked
http://web.archive.org/*/http://www.hang.ch/ out – and probably seen some of those pages already..
December 14th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Hi esaruoho,
the webarchive link is in the Hang Internet Index. I have added it now also to the keyword in the Hang Lexicon.
December 26th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
i have an old friend whos brother died and knowing my self as a music, percussion, world instrument fanatic, he gifted me with his old hang. i did not know him personally and have no serial number or proof of contract with panart but one of the overtones is out of tune and i am wondering if i can get it tuned if i send it to hanghaus with letter explaining my situation. i think he bought it from a north american dealer between 2002-2004
December 27th, 2008 at 2:11 am
Dear Michael,
Thank you so much! You were very helpful. If you ever need something from Portugal, remember me and use my e-mail.
Have a 2009 full of life and success!
Ana
December 27th, 2008 at 2:43 am
Hi josiah,
send a fax to PANArt and tell them your situation. Sign the agreement (left out the price and the other dates you don’t know) and add it to the fax. Ask for a response that all is ok and that you can send your instrument as descibed in the Hang repair information from PANArt.
Hi Ana,
thank you for your whishes. Nice to hear that the Hangblog is helpful.
January 12th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Hi,
I met a hang player in Barcelona, who told me about a small version of hang.
i would like to know where i can find it, and what are the main differences.
Thanks you
January 12th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Hi Laure,
there isn’t any smaller version of the Hang. All Hang models have the same size. Perhaps the hang player in Barcelona meant a steel tank tongue drum. These instruments are not a version of the Hang but quite different instruments. Search for tank drum at YouTube and you will find a lot of videos. These instruments consists of steel tanks (propane tanks or others) with tongues cut into the surface. The sound is very different compared with the Hang.
March 22nd, 2009 at 11:58 am
Excuse me, can you help me to buy a hang drum? I live in Saint-Petersburg, and i`m a student.
It is awful, but there is no chance to buy it in Russia!
Thenk you very mush!
P.S. Sorry for my English
March 22nd, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Hi Dimitriy,
I cannot help you to buy a Hang. I can only help with information how to acquire a Hang. You find it in the article How do I acquire a Hang?.
March 27th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Hi Dmimriy.
Я из Москвы. Ты не один. Я лично отправил факс в Швейцарию еще весной прошлого года, и только позавчера получил ответ. Надо отдать им должное, что рано или поздно, но на все письма и факсы они отвечают, это правда. Мне написали, что смогут дать какую-то более подробную информацию относительного моего заказа только в конце этого года. Когда же будет готов сам инструмент вообще не известно. Но божатся, что не забудут обо мне, и обязательно отпишутся.
Пиши письмом или факсом (что быстрее). Укажи в письме свой мэйл, ответ я получил на мэйл. Штука в том, что у меня есть несколько знакомых, которые живут в Швейцарии. Люди реально приезжали по этому адресу и уходили ни с чем. Все только по предварительным заказам письмом или факсом. Так просто они не торгуют. Таким образом совершенно не важно в какой части светы ты живешь – в России или на соседней улице. Все в порядке очереди.
All forgive for Russian!
March 27th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Hi BREATH,
thank you for your advice in Russian.
April 5th, 2009 at 2:39 am
Michael, Thanks so much for the incredible devotion and care and PATIENCE!
I have continued to seaerch for used available Hangs and also noted your site as a place to stop by and check on the status from time to time of the fate of future productions.
Will you be able to provide info as it arrives vis a vis Pan Art/ or the founders? It would appear that they have discontinued for as yet an undertermined amount of time. Is there any hope whatsoever that they might resume productions at some future date?
I wonder if there is any feasible way they could -or would- consider training others on their skills – with the intention of creating a production team?
it just seems such a shame that for lack of the ability to produce them in a timely fashion, they would limit the world to whatever has been produced thus far.
In any case I will keep looking and reading your site – and LISTENING to what is truly a sound of earth and humanity!
Thanks again. I might have mis posted these questions if there is a more appropriate place to ask them – such as a forum please let me know?
What a selfless and compassionate act you have done- by producing and maintaining this blog!
Namaste and Blessings
Michele [Blue Mermaid]
April 5th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Hi Michele,
the art of sheet steel sounds on the level Felix Rohner and Sabina Schärer are working on doesn’t allow a production that is oriented towards the demand. Therefor an immediate satisfaction is and will be not possible. On the other side there is no reason for the fear that “production stops”. When I read your comment today in the morning, I thought that the answer to your question, whether there is “hope whatsoever that they might resume productions at some future date” is worth to be read by a wider audience. So I wrote an entry for the new Hang Forum that started today. Here you find my post “Did PANArt stop production?”
April 13th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
??? strange
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Come posso ordinare un hang’
Producono ancora Hang drum?
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:27 pm
How many order?
The panart productly hang in to 2009?
April 25th, 2009 at 10:51 am
Hi Manuel,
you find answers to your questions here:
How do I acquire a Hang?
Did PANArt stop production?
June 29th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
I heard a young Spaniard doing jazz with his hang last May, 2009, at the doorsteps of Santa María del Mar, in the Borne of Barcelona. I had never seen before this marvel. He accompanied an alto sax and they both made lovely sound. I whould have bought their CD but I recorded them with my digital camera.
Marvelled by his fantastic instrument, I asked him whether he also played tabla (having lived myself for 6 years in India, tabla came immediately to my mind); he told me he was learning tabla (a very difficult percussion instrument, by the way).
Thinking of buying a hang, I learned then of the prize. I think he told me some Euros 1500 or so. It’s not cheap, but now that I know of the craftmanship involved and the fact that one has to order each instrument, I realize the cost involved.
My question is: does anyone know whether there is any well known hang percussionist? Why Spaniards seem to have an edge with instrument? or perhaps I’m wrong? Thanks
August 7th, 2009 at 1:28 am
Hi … I love the original Hang.. but is anyone else as excited as I am about what Luis is achieving at Bellsart?
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:17 pm
Cuando habra algo para quienes hablamos español?? a mi me costo meses y meses encontrar la forma de pedir mi hang, actualmente estoy esperando que me llamen para ir a buscarlo pero fue muy dificl, habemos personas que definitivamente nos enamoramos de este instrumento y no encontramos nada en español, ojala puedan tener algunas cosas para nosotros…
Saludos desde Chile
Jimmy
October 23rd, 2009 at 11:11 am
Hi Jimmy,
here are two spanish sources:
Hangbooklet 2008, spanish version by PANArt
El Hang by Joost
November 25th, 2009 at 4:55 am
Stumbled across this blog and just sent off my letter of interest. This blog is exceptionally helpful and up to date; thank you!
Well done for having such patience, in answering the same (what seems to be perpetual) question.
Keep it up, mate!
Lexi, Australia.
December 4th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Hi, absolutly awesome !!, i met a guy, twice, in London and Barcelona Davide Swarup, who intruduce me to this instrument, I’d like to know more about some information of where i can purchase it, many thanks, and congratulations !!
Karen
December 5th, 2009 at 12:10 am
very good website michael – you have really worked hard. fantastic information, images and diagrams. thank you.