handpan

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handpan

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Blend of hand + steelpan, coined as a generic alternative to Hang, late 2000s.

noun handpans

A type of steelpan that is played with the hands, typically resting on the player's lap. While I grew up playing brass musical instruments, I gravitated to percussion as a side music hobby as a teen and later began to collect and play African drums and other interesting percussion instruments, such as steel handpans.

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@misc{handpan_2026,
  title = {handpan},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/handpan},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}