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A steel tongue drum can be made from an empty, often 20-lb (9-kg) propane tank. The tank is flipped over and the base is cut or knocked off. Seven to ten tongues are then cut radially into the bottom of the tank, forming the top of the instrument. A steel tongue drum can also be made from a new unused tank head.
The modern pan is a chromatically pitched percussion instrument made from 200-litre industrial drums. [5]Drum refers to the steel drum containers from which the pans are made; the steel drum is more correctly called a steel pan or pan as it falls into the idiophone family of instruments, and so is not a drum (which is a membranophone).
This includes most of the non-drum percussion instruments familiar in the West. They include all idiophones made to vibrate by being struck, either directly with a stick or hand (like the wood block, singing bowl, steel tongue drum, triangle or marimba) or indirectly, by way of a scraping or shaking motion (like maracas or flexatone).
An assortment of musical instruments in an Istanbul music store. This is a list of musical instruments , including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)
The term handpan first appeared online in the autumn of 2007 on the website of American steelpan producer Pantheon Steel. It was used to describe their development of a new instrument that was launched as an alternative to the Hang. [2] Consequently, the term found its way into discussions in the now-defunct Hang-Music Forum on the Internet. [3]
A slit drum or slit gong is a hollow percussion instrument. In spite of its often being called a drum, it is not a true drum because it lacks a drumhead, the membrane stretched across the top of a true drum. It is classed instead as an idiophone in which the entire instrument vibrates.
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hank drum: 36,600 results; Therefor I moved the article to "Steel tongue drum" because this is the most used term. It also is the most descriptive term for these instruments. The term "hank drum" was originally invented as a joke in an internet forum related to Dennis Havlena's do it yourself instrument and he adopted that term.