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  2. Handpan - Wikipedia

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    Handpan is a term for a group of musical instruments that are classified as a subset of the steelpan. Several handpan makers and brands have emerged in recent years, resulting from a growing worldwide interest in the Hang , which is an instrument developed by the company PANArt that is based on the physical properties of the Trinidadian ...

  3. Hang (instrument) - Wikipedia

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    The Hang (German pronunciation:; [1] plural form: Hanghang) [2] is a type of musical instrument called a handpan, fitting into the idiophone class and based on the Trinidad & Tobago steelpan instrument. It was created by Felix Rohner and Sabina Schärer in Bern, Switzerland. The name of their company is PANArt Hangbau AG. [3]

  4. Bamboula - Wikipedia

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    Bamboula Dance Drums (includes audio sample), Smithsonian Global Sound.; Bamboula Dance, Sonny Watson's StreetSwing; Morris, Ayesha (February 25, 2006). "The Power of Dance: Bamboula has deep and strong ties to African heritage, island history and freedom fight".

  5. Dante Bucci - Wikipedia

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    View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; Edit; ... 1980 – August 13, 2014) was a Dutch musician who played the Hang, a type of handpan. [1 ...

  6. Trepanning - Wikipedia

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    Detail from The Extraction of the Stone of Madness, a painting by Hieronymus Bosch depicting trepanation (c. 1488–1516). Trepanning, also known as trepanation, trephination, trephining or making a burr hole (the verb trepan derives from Old French from Medieval Latin trepanum from Greek trúpanon, literally "borer, auger"), [1] [2] is a surgical intervention in which a hole is drilled or ...

  7. Jacques de Vaucanson - Wikipedia

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    Jacques de Vaucanson (French: [jak də vocɑ̃sɔ̃]; February 24, 1709 – November 21, 1782) [1] was a French inventor and artist who built the first all-metal lathe.This invention was crucial for the Industrial Revolution.

  8. Pitched percussion instrument - Wikipedia

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    A glockenspiel and a set of crotales in use While individual cowbells are generally considered unpitched, sets such as these can be found in a chromatic arrangement.. A pitched percussion instrument (also known as a melodic or tuned percussion instrument) is a percussion instrument used to produce musical notes of one or more pitches, as opposed to an unpitched percussion instrument which is ...

  9. Idiophone - Wikipedia

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    Set of bell plates, range C2–E4, a struck idiophone (played with mallets) or friction idiophone (bowed) Claves (foreground), a struck idiophone. An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the vibration of the instrument itself, without the use of air flow (as with aerophones), strings (chordophones), membranes (membranophones) or electricity (electrophones).