What Is A Hang Drum?

 

Sabina Scharer and Felix Rohner created the Hang in Bern, Switzerland; a type of musical instrument in Idiophone class. The Hang is usually relayed to drum but its inventors consider it as a misnomer.

 

The musical instrument is actually made from 2 half shells of deep drawn and nitrided steel sheet that is glued to become one while leaving the inner part hollow and producing a unique UFO shape. Ding is the term used for the top part and has a centre note hammered to it and 7 to 8 tone fields hammered around the centre. The bottom part is named as Gu and is just a plain surface that is rolled hole to the centre with the tuned note that can be created when the rim is struck.

 

Sometimes, the Hang uses the basic physical principles as steelpan but it is modified in a manner to act as a Helmholtz resonator. Years of research of steelpan as well as other instruments is the outcome for the Hang product. The creators of Hang keep working to refine the materials and shape of their product and thus, produced many variations of it over the past few years, buy hangdrum.

 

As a matter of fact, Hang is a Bernese German word, which means hand; this additionally is a registered trademark and property of the company. The Hang most of the time is played resting on the player's lap. Normally, the Hang is played with fingers and hands rather than mallets. The lighter approach of playing produces an overtone rich sound that may be considered as warmer and softer feel than the brighter sound of mallet that is based on conventional steelpan.

 

The top side of Hang, which is called Ding depends on how it is played and could even sound like a bell, harmonically tuned steelpans or harp. The notes are laid to a cross patterns in Tone Circle from low to high. And with that said, it is easier for the player to either descend or ascend the scale just by alternating using their right and left hands to strike the tone fields, buy hang.

 

For every single tone field, it actually has an overtone oriented specifically to a flattened field with a dome at the centre. It is just common to have a fundamental tone, an additional overtone a 5th above the octave and an overtone tuned to an octave above that fundamental.

 

The orientation is consistent throughout the fields on every Hang so by that, the overtones may be extracted, muted or highlighted based on where and how the player strikes the tone field. Check out http://www.mahalo.com/category/music for some music tips.