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HAPI Steel Tongue Drum - Tini - A
Price: $99.00
Availability: In Stock
HAPI Tini-Play-Along™ Drum. Our Tini-Play-Along drum is great for playing songs and also for free form jamming. This is a minor scale based on A, with the pitches A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Its key signature has no flats and no sharps. Its relative major is C major. A4 is the lowest note and A5 is the highest note. It is very compatible with other instruments. Because of its high voice (this our highest voiced drum) it works well as the melody over top of a bass rhythm. Pairs great with many of...
HAPI Steel Tongue Drum Mini - C or D
Price: $159.00
Availability: In Stock
HAPI Drum Mini. There are no wrong notes! Play any note in any order and the drum sounds great! Recommended for beginner, intermediate, and advanced players. Great for intuitive play, meditation, yoga, music and sound therapy. These mini ones have a big sound at a small price! It’s so easy to bring it along anywhere you go. Play it in the park, bring it over to a friends house, or take it camping. Includes: HAPI Mini DrumPadded Travel BagMalletsInstruction BookletFREE Shipping (within...
HAPI Steel Tongue Drum - Aura - C, B or A
Price: $229.00
Availability: In Stock
Steel Tongue Drum - HAPI Aura Steel tongue drum Aura is a great tool and can be used for yoga, meditation and music therapy to help ease the mind and relax the body. Discover a natural way to find calm, any time of the day. Steel tongue drum with a soothing sound that will help your body and mind to unwind bringing you to a state of tranquility day or night. Meditation is known to reduce stress and anxiety. It promotes emotional health and a stronger understanding of yourself. Focus on...
HAPI Steel Tongue Drum - Slim - A or G
Price: $245.00
Availability: In Stock
HAPI Drum Slim. Recommended for beginner, intermediate, and advanced players. Our HAPI Slim Drum has a sleek design and can be carried with one hand. It has a powerful and full bodied sound. Our eight note tongue layout adds harmonic tones to each note when played. The bottom port lets the sound out to fill the room. Isolating rubber feet located on the bottom of the drum allow it to be set on any surface for play. Includes: HAPI Slim DrumPadded Travel BagMalletsInstruction BookletFREE...
HAPI Steel Tongue Drum - Origin - E or D
Price: $259.00
Availability: In Stock
Our HAPI Origin Drum comes in deeper meditative scales. To hear the strength of the lower deep tones, we recommend covering the bottom of the drum. Sit the drum on a pillow or play the drum in your closed lap. This directs the deep bass tones back up through the drum to you. Great for music therapy, meditation, yoga. Recommended for beginner, intermediate, and advanced players. The HAPI Origin Drum is available in 2 different pentatonic scales: E Major (E3, F#3, G#3,...
HAPI Steel Tongue Drum - Omni - G or F
Price: $296.00
Availability: In Stock
HAPI Drum Omni. Recommended for beginner, intermediate, and advanced players. We have come to understand many unique attributes from our experience in making tongue drums and handpans. We have combined this knowledge to create the Omni. A new innovative tongue drum shape with a great sound! This drum was designed to harness some of the attributes of handpans into a steel tongue drum instrument. We use a scale arrangement where the lowest note in the middle is below the outer side notes. This...
HAPI Slim Tuneable G, F#, F
Price: $266.40
Availability: In Stock
HAPI Drum Slim Tuneable – Over 24 different scales possible in one HAPI Drum! Ideal for the musician who wants to change scales for different compositions, or for the casual drummer who wants to experiment with different scales. Comes with an illustrated instruction booklet and 24 different scales to get you started! Tune your drum to a huge range of Pentatonic Scales in G, F# or F. Try out Minor, Akebono, Pygmy, Egyptian, Blues, Major, Melog and more! Play with your hands, or with the...
HAPI Origin Tuneable E, Eb, D
Price: $266.40
Availability: Out of Stock
HAPI Origin Tuneable Drum – Over 24 different scales possible in one drum! Ideal for the musician who wants to change scales for different compositions, or for the casual drummer who wants to experiment with different scales. Comes with an illustrated instruction booklet and 24 different scales to get you started! Tune your drum to a huge range of pentatonic scales in E, E flat or D. Try out Minor, Akebono, Pygmy, Egyptian, Blues, Major, Melog and more! Play with your hands, or with the...
Pro Series HAPI Handpan - F, E, or D
Price: $980.00
Availability: Out of Stock
Pro Handpan by HAPI. Our Pro Handpans are an excellent fit for recording artists or anyone looking for perfection. Handpans are not just musical instruments; they are tools for relaxation and self-discovery. Embrace the therapeutic power of sound and find your inner harmony. Our handpans have extremely tight tuning tolerances which allows the harmonics of the notes to overlap and share frequencies. They also have a polished steel finish. Created from heat treated steel. All the notes are tuned...
HAPI Bell, Steel Tongue Drum, Singing Bowl - D or G
Price: $211.65
Availability: Out of Stock
HAPI Bell. A steel tongue drum, bell/gong and singing bowl in one. Recommended for beginner, intermediate, and advanced players. The HAPI Bell can be used in 3 different ways: as a bell/gong, as a steel tongue drum, or as a singing bowl. Bell/Gong. Strike the side with our supplied felt mallet and the deep meditative note of A2 is heard. This long sustained tone is complex and mesmerizing. The tongues on the top are also excited when the bell tone is struck. They ring in D Minor or G...
Steel Tongue Drum by HAPI -can anyone play one?
A steel tongue drum created by HAPI™ (hand activated percussion instrument) is the perfect musical instrument for jamming and playing percussive beats. Anyone who wants an easy to play intuitive music instrument can learn to play one. You don't need a musical background. The note layout of the HAPI steel tongue drum makes it easy to jump right into grooving rhythms. Our HAPI steel tongue drums use tongues cut to different sizes and shapes to produce musical tones, similar to wooden tongue drums.
Our steel tongue drums can, of course, be used in any setting. But, we have broken out some specific uses for them here:
Steel tongue drum Slim is amazing for yoga and stress release. Steel tongue drum Tini is ideal for music development and hand eye coordination. Steel tongue drum Mini is great for camping or taking to the beach. Steel tongue drum Aura is a perfect fit for music therapists and sound therapy and rehabilitation. Origin steel tongue drum is ideal for mindful meditation. Omni steel tongue drum is great for focus and intention. Our Handpans are amazing for sound studios and musicians. Check out our steel tongue drum Gift Guide here.
How is a steel tongue drum played?
We recommend playing the HAPI steel tongue drum with the pads of your fingers. A wide range of sounds can be created with different techniques. Playing by hand
connects you with the steel tongue drum in the way that traditional drums are enjoyed. A minimal amount of force creates a big sound on these drums. We also supply each steel tongue drum with mallets designed to bring out pure tone.
Our mallets are designed to eliminate “head slap” creating a very clear tone. When using mallets, hold the mallet lightly and let it drop onto the note. This creates the ideal tone. When using your hands all that is
required is a light quick touch from the pad of your finger.
Playing with your hands, use the pad of only one finger to strike the note. Hit the note at the top of the tongue, your target area is towards the top, in the middle of the tongue. Index or middle fingers or the side of your thumb are all ok too. Do not use the tip of the finger but rather the full pad of your finger. Your finger should be about level with the steel tongue drum before you start the motion and two to three
inches above the drum. Use a wrist motion to slap the finger off of the note. Do not move your elbows, it’s all in the wrist. Let your finger lightly bounce off the steel tongue drum note like the mallets do. Start learning on the largest notes and then once you have good technique, move to practicing
on the smaller notes.