In this episode Lewis chats to Tom Parsell about the Handpan. Handpan is a term for a group of musical instruments that are classified as a subset of the steelpan. The basic form of a handpan consists of two metal half-shells glued together, a centre tone field (named Ding) surrounded by a circle of at least seven tone fields on the upper side and an opening in the bottom side (named Gu). Differences between manufacturers include the used materials, the manufacturing processes of the raw forms, the shaping of the tone fields and the tuning methods.
