Adventures in the 3rd Dimension
Prototype Elemental Handpans

Elemental Handpans

Prototype Elemental Handpans

Prototype Elemental Handpans

Acoustically tuned singing steel sound sculptures in various sound models

E minor and G Ake Bono pictured

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Tuning stand

Tuning stand

I designed and fabricated my own tuning stand strong enough to withstand forming blank shells from flat sheets.

A Pan in the rings

A Pan in the rings

This is a hydroformed shell in the rings during the tuning process

Marked and ready to form

Marked and ready to form

Once marked out, the note fields are hammered into a shape that can carry three resonant harmonics, the fundamental, the octave and the fifth.