27. July 2006 - Interview: INTERVISTE Panart Hang (italian)
https://www.mescalina.it/musica/interviste/27/07/2006/panart
Some Translations of Quotes by PANArt:
“Our journey was once again a journey of experimentation that led us to the new generation of Hang, which was presented at the meeting to give musicians the opportunity to play the new instruments and work together for their growth.”
“I’ll try to be as brief as possible: at the end of the 90s, after ten years of experiments, everything was ready and something had to happen. A percussionist came to us to tune his Steel Pan and said: “I play the Gatham and my dream is to have an instrument with notes like the Steel Pan but with the possibility of playing it with my hands. From that idea we put together two hemispheres of Steel Pan. The notes were there and your hands could touch the metal,…”
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