New Musical Instrument has Spiritual Harmonic Spirit Tingling Sounds

As we traveled thru Europe looking for unique Christmas gifts made by hard working artists, we ran across a street musician playing the Hang Drum.

Created in 2000, the Hang (pronounced "hung") is one of the younger musical instruments. It comes from Bern, Switzerland and It was the result of many years of research on the steel pan and many other resonating percussion instruments from around the world: Gong, Gamelan, Ghatam, drums, cowbells, MUSICAL Saw and more.

In the Bernese language, Hang refers to the human hand, as in "hand-drum." This percussion instrument is comprised of two metal hemispheres bonded together: the DING side and the GU side.
The DING side CONTAINS 8 tone fields which together form the "tone circle" (scale or mode). This circle surrounds a central dome, called the DING (which sounds like a Gong).
On the GU side, there is a hand size hole (called the GU) for sound resonance. The GU can be played like an udu, or used to modulate the sound of the DING.

There are many ways to invite the Hang to sound: with fingertips, thumbs, and the heel of the palm - and a mix of all three. Most of the time, the Hang sits on the player's knees, but you also could play it on a drum stand. Players can let their hands and their feelings discover how to play. Indeed, there are no rules for playing except one: the joy of music!

Udu-like sounds are produced with the air resonance, the sounds of the clamped shallow shells sound like bells or harmonically tuned steelpans. The inner note on the bottom dome is the bass note, and when played in a dampened way allows change in pitch like a talking drum. Seven to nine notes are tuned harmonically around a central deep note.

The result is a beautiful mixture of sounds that resonate within you and outwards to the Universe, in my experience at least! Maybe it would you, too. btw, sorry for the last few seconds, the sound dropped out, but with the cam I had, accidentally covering the mic is not hard! But still you get a decent amount of time to hear it!

Peace, Light and Love and Happy and Safe Holidays to all Current citizens as well as our friends from the USA to Israel and Palestine as well as Throughout Europe. Our wish this season is that World Peace will happen this coming New Year, starting with Peace in the Mideast.

The picture used here is one I took in Switzerland and is the Peace Light that has been burning for about eight years and has traveled all over Europe. Switzerland has it every year.

Peace is for all,
Our light is bright
Our Love is Tough Love sometimes,
But our intentions are Love and Peace for all.