Making Handpan Accessible to Everyone

Often when I meet someone who is interested in these instruments their story is usually similar in many ways to mine. It involves hearing and being drawn towards a mesmerising sound and then being captivated by what they find. Following this is a deep desire experience play a handpan, and then the realisation of how inaccessible they are (or are perceived to be). Thankfully a lot has changed over the past few years, and the days of handpans costing many thousands of pounds and needing to wait years on a waiting list are becoming a thing of the past. They are still not cheap, reflecting the time and skill required to hand make and tune them, however they are a fraction of the cost of even a few years ago, and far more available. sadly there are many people willing to take advantage of this, selling very poor quality handpans for extortionate amounts of money. Within our Introduction to handpan workshops we cover exctly what to look for in a good instruments, and give participants the opportunity to try instruments from a number of different trusted handpan handpan makers.