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    metal tongue drum

    Hapi-drum

    The sound is similar to a handpan or hang drum. Made of solid cast, it is more likely to be played with mallets. pentatonic

    Wooden tongue drums have an old tradition in the South Seas. A hollow trunk or wooden box serves as a resonance body. One or more tongues are cut out at the top. These exposed areas of wood vibrate when struck and create a very earthy sound. Different tones are created depending on the size of the tongue.

    A further development from this are the metal tongue drums such as the Hapi-drum.
    Similar to a steel drum, the Hapi is made of a metal body that is not concave but convex.
    Tongues are cut into the metal body on the top, which can be played with mallets or by hand.
    The spherical shape creates very round vibrations of the tones, which linger for a long time.

    The Hapi is tuned pentatonic.
    Due to the pentatonic mood and the soft, swinging sounds, the Hapi encourages improvisation, meditation or just to dream.
    The Hapi is available in different versions:
    Hapi: in a low pitch, green surface
    Hapi slim: medium pitch, black surface
    Hapi mini: high pitch, copper-colored surface
    There are different tuning sequences in each pitch.

    Hapi drum - deep sound

    hapi-tief

    The most popular tuning for the hapi in the low register is pentatonic D minor, which builds up a calm, softly vibrating harmonic sound.

    Very beautiful and somewhat more appealing is the tuning in D-Akebono, a Japanese pentatonic, which does not sound quite as calm as the conventional pentatonic, but builds up a little more tension.

    d-minor pentatonic. D - F - G - A - C - D - F - G

    D Akebono D - E - F - A - B - D - E - F

    Evry Hapi comes with two mallets and a bag.

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    Hapi d-moll

    Hapi drum slim

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    hapi-slim

    The Hapi slim is very popular in the tuning A minor. In this key it has a very balanced sound. Also, the key of A minor fits well with medieval and traditional music.

    A little lower is the tuning in F major. The major pentatonic seems a bit more cheerful than the melancholic minor pentatonic.

    A minor A - C - D - E - G - A - C - D

    F major F - G - A - C - D - F - G - A

    Each hapi comes with two mallets and a bag

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    Hapi a-moll

    Hapi F-dur

    Hapi Mini

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    hapi-mini

    A smaller version of the hapi in a higher pitch ( about 20 cm in diameter ).

    8 notes pentatonic

    in C major (C - D - E - G - A - C - D - E) or

    D-major (D - E - F# - A - B - C - D - E - F#) or

    D-akebono (D - E - F - A - B - D - E - F)

    Especially exciting here is the D-akebono tuning, which builds up a very exciting sound in the high register.

    Bag and mallet included

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    Hapi mini c-dur

    Hapi mini d-akebono

    tongue drum

    a wooden box with tongues in the top, very earthy sound, well for Kindergarden and music-therapy

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    An ritual instrument at different indigen cultur. Exspecially in sout pacific area it is usual.

    At first it was a hollow log,  here it is a wooden box, with sawed tongues in the top.

    The different length of the tongues makes 6 different notes in pentatonic tuning. So you can play free and easy and the sound is always harmonic.

    The sound is very earthy, origen, shamanic. A modern instrument in this style is the Hapi-drum, a tongue-drum made from a metal resonance-box.

    A robust instrument wich is good for music practice with small children, Kindergarden or music therapy.

    Size: 48 x 18 x 18 cm, inkl. two feltsticks

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    The Hu-Lu-Si is not a double reed instrument but produces the sound with simple reeds from metal.
    A gourd is used for the mouthpiece to blow three pipes together. One pipe has fingering holes for playing melodies, the other two on the sides playing as a bordun.

    So the sound remember to a bagpipe.
    Although the metal tongues make a soft vibrating sound, similar like a mouth-organ.

    Simple Hulusi have often only one bordun, and the third pipe is just a fake. This Hulusi, we offer, has two bordun. They are tuned in quint.

    To play the Hulusi is easy, you don't need a special technic, you just blow in. You can open or close the bordun, but how much borduns are open it need more air to play..Chinese wind-instruments are signed for the tonalitiy at the third hole. This means an instrument chinese F, sounds in C, the deepest note of the melodypipe is C. The large bordun than is tuned in D, like the second note of the melody-pipe. The small bordun than sounds in A, a quint higher than D. You can play a none at the melodypipe ( deep C to high D).

    The Hulusi is availabel in differnt tunes and qualities:

    high sound:

    • chinese D - deepest note F, bordun E and B

    deep sound:

    • chinese G - deepest note D, bordun E and B
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    Every Hulusi has a luck-knot and a hardcase.

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