They Invented the Must-Have Instrument for the Burning Man Set. Now They Want to Kill It Off
(Bloomberg) -- During a tense scene in Netflix’s hit drama Narcos, a Colombian official confronts Pablo Escobar over his prolific drug smuggling, and their standoff is punctuated by the strange sounds of a metallic instrument. It’s the same haunting strain that can be heard in the soundtrack for the game Minecraft and in recent live performances by Björk. The melodies are created by one of the weirder trends to take hold in the world of professional music: the handpan. Invented just 20 years ago, the handpan is a large hollow metal object that players balance on their lap and strike with ...
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