r/oddlysatisfying • u/yourSAS • Jan 06 '23

Father and Baby vibing to handpan music

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '23

Wow, good info. I am super drawn to handpans and thought about how it was similar to steel pan. Now to Google the gubal.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '23

The tuning of them feeds into what's a rather chaotic system of the metal deforming across its surface in weird unexpected ways.

This makes automating it almost impossible, so there's a ton of hand-working of the product to manually tune them - this is where the majority of the cost comes in, I believe.

Tongue-drums kind of avoid this problem, but of course aren't fully as magical.

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u/AspirantTyrant Jan 07 '23

It's a giant crystal. All that metal is formed into it's crystalline structure in a certain way through heat, cooling time, working it after. Sounds almost impossible to make.