Gianluca Pistoia from Italy, who plays handpan at meditation sessions across the world, talks about the instrument A hotel lobby, busy and buzzing. Amid all the activity, a foreigner walks in and ...

It is also said to be grabbing the attention of amateur and seasoned musicians in India. Relaxing, pleasing, calming, meditative — common adjectives handpan players use while talking about the ...

The first thing one noticed was the different arrangement of the percussion instruments. While the standard drumkit was ...

The Ondo! A Handpan Concert at Petaling Jaya Performing Arts Centre (PJPAC) at 1Utama Shopping Centre in Selangor this weekend is set to underline how far this remarkable percussion instrument – which ...

(From left) Jimmy Ch’ng, Bernard Goh, Phang Jian Hao, and Kok Wei sharing a light moment during a rehearsal at the Hands Percussion Studio. (Muhaimin Marwan@FMT Lifestyle) Upon first glance, the ...

During a tense scene in Netflix’s hit drama Narcos, a Colombian official confronts Pablo Escobar over his prolific drug smuggling, and their standoff is punctuated by the strange sounds of a metallic ...

Rafael Sotomayor playing handpan at Yugong Yishan in Beijing. Photo: Li Hao/GT Rafael Sotomayor from Santiago, Chile, is only 35 years old, but he had visited 50 different countries before he came to ...

Taking up a soothing musical instrument like the handpan may just be the perfect way to start or enhance a self-care routine. I'm a visual storyteller, working primarily in the medium of photography ...

Synthesizer giant Roland just announced a fairly bizarre contraption. The Mood Pan is the company's digital take on an acoustic handpan. For the uninitiated, a handpan is a version of the steelpan ...