cool instrument: hang drum

Hi all,

I just found out about a very cool instrument
designed in 2000, reminiscent of a steel drum
but IMO even cooler. It's called a "Hang drum"
(pronounced "hung drum"), which is the local
Swiss dialect for "hand drum".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_drum

If you search "hang drum" on youtube you'll
find a variety of different performances on it.
Here is one of my favorites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vei8lDklas

I'm posting it here because the divets can be
tuned variously, and therefore it is possible
for the drum to have a variety of microtonal
tunings.

-monz
http://tonalsoft.com
Tonescape microtonal music software

Wow.. that is cool!

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "monz" <monz@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> I just found out about a very cool instrument
> designed in 2000, reminiscent of a steel drum
> but IMO even cooler. It's called a "Hang drum"
> (pronounced "hung drum"), which is the local
> Swiss dialect for "hand drum".
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_drum
>
>
> If you search "hang drum" on youtube you'll
> find a variety of different performances on it.
> Here is one of my favorites:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vei8lDklas
>
>
> I'm posting it here because the divets can be
> tuned variously, and therefore it is possible
> for the drum to have a variety of microtonal
> tunings.
>
>
> -monz
> http://tonalsoft.com
> Tonescape microtonal music software
>

Monz - I just saw that the other day. What got my
attention was the setting. The Pinacle is not far
from where I grew up in Pennsylvania. -Carl

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "monz" <monz@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> I just found out about a very cool instrument
> designed in 2000, reminiscent of a steel drum
> but IMO even cooler. It's called a "Hang drum"
> (pronounced "hung drum"), which is the local
> Swiss dialect for "hand drum".
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_drum
>
>
> If you search "hang drum" on youtube you'll
> find a variety of different performances on it.
> Here is one of my favorites:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vei8lDklas
>
>
> I'm posting it here because the divets can be
> tuned variously, and therefore it is possible
> for the drum to have a variety of microtonal
> tunings.
>
>
> -monz
> http://tonalsoft.com
> Tonescape microtonal music software

Carl,

If it's a Swiss drum, then isn't the drummer probably
sitting on a pinnacle in the Swiss Alps?

I've lived in Switzerland and I've been all over
Pennsylvania. The photo looked more like Switzerland
to me.

Also, the world has many pinnacles, including
The Pinnacles National Monument, east of Soledad,
California, in Monterey County.

Mark
--- Carl Lumma <carl@lumma.org> wrote:

> Monz - I just saw that the other day. What got my
> attention was the setting. The Pinacle is not far
> from where I grew up in Pennsylvania. -Carl
>
> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "monz" <monz@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> > I just found out about a very cool instrument
> > designed in 2000, reminiscent of a steel drum
> > but IMO even cooler. It's called a "Hang drum"
> > (pronounced "hung drum"), which is the local
> > Swiss dialect for "hand drum".
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_drum
> >
> >
> > If you search "hang drum" on youtube you'll
> > find a variety of different performances on it.
> > Here is one of my favorites:
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vei8lDklas
> >
> >
> > I'm posting it here because the divets can be
> > tuned variously, and therefore it is possible
> > for the drum to have a variety of microtonal
> > tunings.
> >
> >
> > -monz
> > http://tonalsoft.com
> > Tonescape microtonal music software
>
>
>

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I've had a second look at the Pinnacle landscape: It
could be either Switzerland or Pennsylvania!

Mark

--- monz <monz@tonalsoft.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> I just found out about a very cool instrument
> designed in 2000, reminiscent of a steel drum
> but IMO even cooler. It's called a "Hang drum"
> (pronounced "hung drum"), which is the local
> Swiss dialect for "hand drum".
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_drum
>
>
> If you search "hang drum" on youtube you'll
> find a variety of different performances on it.
> Here is one of my favorites:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vei8lDklas
>
>
> I'm posting it here because the divets can be
> tuned variously, and therefore it is possible
> for the drum to have a variety of microtonal
> tunings.
>
>
> -monz
> http://tonalsoft.com
> Tonescape microtonal music software
>
>
>
>
>
>

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--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Mark Rankin <markrankin95511@...> wrote:
>
> I've had a second look at the Pinnacle landscape: It
> could be either Switzerland or Pennsylvania!

So far as I know neither place has tarantulas.