Sometimes referred to as a Hang Drum, the Hang is not really a drum at all, but a tuned metal pan that produces a mellifluous, ethereal tone with echoes of the Trinidadian steel pan or Indian ghatam.

(Hang in Bernese Swiss German dialect means hand.) At first people could buy the new instrument in shops and demand for the unusual sounding ‘drum’ soon shot up. But Rohner and Schärer ...