30 years PANArt Hangbau AG

Since 1993, PANArt has been a place where sound objects are created.

In the beginning it was the Sweet Sound of Steel, that strong impulse from Trinidad and Tobago, that drove the founders to pass it on in new material, new sound and different shape.

This path was enriched in many ways:

The PANArt team got to know the people who created a new art form of music, the steel orchestra. It was allowed to participate in the steel band culture that was instrumental in peacefully building a nation out of post-colonial pressures and hardships. It was immersed in the magical power of the steelpan sound, recognised its social integration power and was introduced to the secrets of the technology and acoustics of the new sound plexus by its scientific researchers.

By breaking away from the fixation on the Mecca of steelband music and its traditional steelpan building based on steel barrels, the door of PANArt opened at the turn of the century to a generation of young, creative people. With heart and soul, they too are today compressing, stretching, smoothing and tuning new sound bodies for a new age with their hammers.
For this purpose, PANArt has been working for 30 years with a material specially created for hand playing, the composite Pang®.

The sound objects that are currently being created, the Hang Balu, invite free collective play under an expanded concept of music. Those who strive to live holistically, those whose access to the world of music has been fatefully closed, or those who wish to preserve or develop their manual intelligence will appreciate this culture of play.

The sound objects are sold by PANArt under the brand name Hang® and are protected by copyright. Currently, there are four individuals who give their best daily in their tuning rooms of the PANArt.

The PANArt shall remain a place where a fresh wind blows, blowing away the musty laws of the market and allowing the entry of new ideas, concrete designs and concepts.