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440 Hz · played unamplified
10-Note Handpan, Stainless Steel — 4 Scales in 440 Hz
D Kurd / 440 Hz
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$1,349
Regular price $1,794
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The Essential Handpan
A hand-tuned handpan you will actually play, from the first minute.
Sale price
$1,349
Regular price $1,794
Save $445
Free US shippingDelivered in 3–4 weeks
30-day returnsWith the packaging still sealed
1-year warrantyFrom the day it arrives
Carry bag includedNothing else to buy
Scale guide · for reference only
Not sure which scale? Pick one and this line tells you how it sounds. D Kurd is where most players start.
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Description
A handpan is one of the few instruments you can play the day it arrives. Every tone field belongs to the scale you chose, so whatever your hands do, it stays in key.
This is the first step into the range — ten notes on a 53 cm stainless steel shell, designed by Dreemelody. You choose the scale at checkout — D Kurd, C# Pygmy, D Celtic or D Amara — and it costs the same whichever one you pick. Tuned to 440 Hz, the concert standard.
It arrives tuned, in its padded bag. Nothing to plug in and nothing to set up.
Tuning and care
Play with your hands, not with sticks, and wipe the shell with a dry cloth after each session. Kept away from knocks and stored in its bag, a nitrided stainless handpan holds its tuning for one to three years. After that, any handpan tuner can bring it back to pitch, and we can point you to one in the United States.
Shipping and returns
Free shipping anywhere in the US.
Built in 5–7 days, then shipped by sea.
Delivery time: 3–4 weeks within the continental United States.
More information here.
You have 30 days from delivery to request a return, with the packaging still sealed, for a full refund.
More information here.
Nobody buys a handpan from a photograph.
Recorded on the same model, in a dry room, with no processing.The box, the bag, the first note.
01
The parcel
Sealed, double-boxed02
Out of the bag
Hammer marks, dimples, ding03
First notes
Hands only, unamplifiedHandmade, next to the ordinary factory pan.
The Essential$1,349
A typical entry-level handpan$400 to $900
Tuning accuracy
±5 cents
Not published
Scales
Four, one price
One, whatever is in stock
Retuning
Any handpan tuner can
Rarely possible
Shell
Nitrided stainless
Untreated steel
Hear it first
Audio and video of the model
A catalogue photo
Warranty
1 year
None
Returns
30 days, sealed
Case by case
Category comparison · no maker named
Every specification, and the box.
- Notes
- 10 · one ding, nine fields
- Scales
- 4 · same price
- Pitch
- 440 Hz
- Tuning
- By hand · ±5 cents
- Shell
- Nitrided stainless steel
- Delivery
- 3–4 weeks · free US shipping
- Returns
- 30 days, sealed
What actually changes between the three.
Essential$1,349
Signature$1,790
Master$2,590
Notes
10
10
16 (10 + 6)
Steel
Stainless steel
Ember Steel
Ember Steel
Tuned by
Experienced tuner
Master tuner
Master tuner
Pitch
440 Hz
432 or 440 Hz
432 or 440 Hz
Scales
4
11
11
Warranty
1 year
3 years
3 years
Returns
30 days, sealed
30 days, sealed
30 days, sealed
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Handpan questions
What people ask before their first handpan.
The questions we get asked most about this instrument.
The steel, and who tunes it. The Essential is nitrided stainless: bright, quick to answer the hand, and forgiving with humidity. The Signature is Ember Steel, warmer and much longer in the tail. Both are hammered and tuned by hand to within 5 cents — the difference is the character of the note, not the care taken over it.
Longer than you would think. Ten notes in one scale is what nearly every player starts on, and most never move past it — the depth comes from rhythm and touch rather than from adding notes. If you already know you want range, the Master puts six more on the underside.
No. Every note belongs to the same scale, so nothing you play can land wrong — most people improvise something they enjoy the first afternoon. What takes a few weeks is the touch: a handpan answers to a relaxed hand, not a hard one.
D Kurd if you are unsure — grounded, a little melancholy, and it suits almost anything you would want to play. Pygmy is darker and more meditative, Celtic brighter and more open. You choose your scale at checkout, at no extra cost, and every handpan is built in the scale you pick.
440 Hz if you might ever play alongside another instrument or along to something recorded. 432 Hz if the handpan is above all for your own practice, where its slightly warmer, softer character suits meditation. Same price, same lead time — but the choice is set when the instrument is built and cannot be undone afterwards.
Hands only — mallets dent the tone fields permanently. Wipe it dry after playing, keep it in its bag, and out of direct sun and parked cars. Treated that way it holds its tuning for one to three years, and it can be retuned after that.
Yes. This handpan is covered for one year, counted from the day it arrives. Across the range, the Essential carries one year and the Signature and the Master three. It covers the instrument itself in normal use: if a note or the shell isn't right, send us a photo or a short recording and we will sort it out with you.