2014 - PANArt offers Gubal(R). No more Hang(R). No more letters.

At Panart, everything revolves around the new „Gubal“(R).

The Hang(R) is officially no longer being built at PANArt – and not offered anymore since 2014.
“Seit Anfang 2014 wird das Hang nicht mehr angeboten.”
Source: https://www.hangblog.org/das-hang/

• “The Gubal is now the only instrument PANArt sells – a December 2013 notice on their website says no more Hang are being produced and “letters and mails will no longer be answered.” “That’s the evolution,” Schärer says. “You have to leave things behind and move on. We hope there is no more virus. Maybe you can be cured of the Hang by playing the Gubal,” she says with a smile.” Deepl Translation, Source:https://www.swissinfo.ch/ger/das-hang_lebensveraendernd–hirngespinst-oder-nur-eine-steelpan-/38538252

More sources:

• “Twelve years have passed since (Johannes) Lustig first perceived the sounds of an original hang (…) A few years later, not only his interest but the worldwide interest had apparently increased to such an extent that from then on one had to apply with a written letter for an original hang. Johannes Lustig wrote a letter, but never sent it. (…)>>By the time I wanted to send it, it was already too late. Panart was no longer producing Hanghang.>>” (Translated)
  
  Source: “Zwischen zwei Halbschalen liegt eine andere Welt”, 2016, Liliane Manzanedo : https://www.derbund.ch/bern/stadt/zwischen-zwei-halbschalen-liegt-eine-andere-welt/story/11977712 (Login recquired)
• “Trotz der hohen Nachfrage stellte die gegründet Firma PANArt Hangbau AG die Fertigung des “Hangs” Ende 2013 ein. Viele andere Hersteller entwickelten ab 2007 ähnliche Instrument die unter dem Sammelbegriff Handpan oder Pantam zusammengefasst werden. “ Ö1,
  Source:
  https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20200621/601704/Das-Instrument-Hang
• “Handpan ist der Name für eine Gruppe von Musikinstrumenten, die als Reaktion auf das weltweit große Interesse für das Hang entstanden ist, einem handgespielten Blechklanginstrument, das die Firma PANArt Hangbau AG im Jahr 2000 entwickelte und bis 2013 baute.”
  Source: https://de.unionpedia.org/i/Handpan
• “Anfang dieses Jahres haben Rohner und Schärer die Produktion eingestellt, um sich ganz ihrer neusten Erfindung zu widmen, dem Gubal”
  Source (2014): http://www.78s.ch/2014/11/09/instrumentenkunde-das-hang/
• “(…)Gubal” was new, there were no more Hangs, production had been stopped due to high demand. Read correctly: due to HIGH demand – interesting corporate strategy. (…) The sound fields (of Gubal) are tuned in the scale (Eb) Bb, C, Db, Eb, F, G, Bb and have a slightly brassy sound rich in overtones. (…)” (DeepL Translation) Source: https://www.bonedo.de/artikel/einzelansicht/wie-ich-zu-meinem-panart-gubal-hang-kam-handpan-lotterie-mit-fuenf-jahren-wartezeit.html
• “PANArt collaborated with physicists.(…) In the process of perfecting the Hang, the Bernese pioneers developed a new instrument, the Gubal.”  Deepl Translation, Source: https://www.swissinfo.ch/ger/das-hang_lebensveraendernd–hirngespinst-oder-nur-eine-steelpan-/38538252
• PANArt quote: <<“The gubal has a body. The Hang takes your body. You leave your body. It’s a transitional instrument, you leave your body during a certain time. That’s why we have such a big echo worldwide.”The gubal is “no longer magical,” but “you can make magical music with it.” >>Deepl Translation, Source: https://www.swissinfo.ch/ger/das-hang_lebensveraendernd–hirngespinst-oder-nur-eine-steelpan-/38538252
• “The original Hang stopped production in 2013, as founders Felix Rohner and Sabrina Schärer wanted to preserve the mystique and value of the instrument as well as work on developing other musical instruments.” Source: https://theconsciousclub.com/articles/2019/10/24/the-magic-of-the-handpan-the-instrument-for-stress-release-and-harmonynbsp
• “Momenteel wordt de populaire Hangdrum niet meer gemaakt.” https://beenhakkers.nl/hang-drum-niet-meer-gemaakt/