During a tense scene in Netflix’s hit drama Narcos, a Colombian official confronts Pablo Escobar over his prolific drug smuggling, and their standoff is punctuated by the strange sounds of a metallic ...

The first thing one noticed was the different arrangement of the percussion instruments. While the standard drumkit was placed at the back, the front was adorned by three handpans next to each other.

Gianluca Pistoia from Italy, who plays handpan at meditation sessions across the world, talks about the instrument A hotel lobby, busy and buzzing. Amid all the activity, a foreigner walks in and ...

Taking up a soothing musical instrument like the handpan may just be the perfect way to start or enhance a self-care routine. I'm a visual storyteller, working primarily in the medium of photography ...

Phang Jian Hao, Ondo Handpan Studio founder, describes the handpan as an instrument that is full of unknowns and challenges, which he considers a big part of its charm. Photo: Dev Lee The Ondo! A ...

For those unfamiliar (like we were before seeing Ethereal’s videos), the handpan is a steel instrument that has divots of various sizes. Depending on how the divots are slapped, the instrument creates ...

In the 18th and 19th centuries, a love of all things Celtic spread throughout much of continental Europe. The Germans called it Keltomanie and to this day many Germans can be seen on the look-out for ...