Chinese handpan musician Chen Rui will collaborate with erhu player Zhang Teng and keyboard bassist Lin Deshu for a show Sunday. Entry is free.
Most handpans consist of two metal half-shells glued together, a center tone field surrounded by a circle of at least seven tone fields on the upper side and an opening on the bottom side. Differences are the materials used, the manufacturing processes of the raw forms, the shaping of the tone fields and the tuning methods.
The term handpan first appeared online in the fall of 2007 on the website of an American steelpan producer Pantheon Steel. It was used to describe its own development of a new instrument. Consequently, the term found its way into discussions in the defunct Hang-Music Forum on the Internet. The successor of this forum was founded in 2009 and was called handpan.org. In this way the expression “handpan” found wide circulation. A new generic term for this group of instruments had become necessary as PANArt had registered the name Hang as trademark for musical instruments. Today, significantly more than 300 handpan builders have entered the market and offer instruments that vary widely in material, manufacturing techniques, shape, sound and quality.
Time: 3-4:30 p.m., May 19
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Venue: Tongji Needs Space, Block 16, Shenzhen High-Tech Industrial Park, Nanshan District (南山区深圳科技园高北十六创意园同济未来需求空间)
Metro: Line 1 to Hi-Tech Park Station (高新站), Exit B and then take a taxi