$600 vs $1400 Handpan! Comparison of 4 Different Handpans by NovaPan and Asteman

These pans are made by Nova Pans, called Panniverse on Amazon and one by Asteman. They are all tuned to a D Kurd scale, which is D minor. You can grab the $600 Gold (Gen 4) here: amzn.to/2UT3DhP
the Blue (Gen 3) here: amzn.to/3yZmx5o
And the $1400 Gold (Gen 7) here: amzn.to/3ulGIcj
You can also find them on their website NovaPans.com
The Asteman handpan is here: amzn.to/35fkNLh
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[@thathandpanlady4510]

I look forward to the day you have a really decent Handpan in your lap. I can tell you’re a great musician and I think you’ll be blown away by the sounds that will come out of a quality pan made by a reputable builder! Totally completely different than those 4 you’ve got there! A good pan will make you just drift into another realm….. Trust me on this….lol…because from experience, this I know is truth….. 🤗🛸🎶🦋

[@Dawson.Mercer]

Do you have a recommendation of brand or reputable builder? I am looking at getting my first Handpan and I’m not really sure where to start

[@Dawson.Mercer]

Hi again, for some reason I can't see your message but I can see only part of it in my notification. I appreciate your help I would love some advice, its hard to know where to start as a beginner.

[@thathandpanlady4510]

@@Dawson.Mercer ..Are you on FaceBook or Instagram??

[@Dawson.Mercer]

@@thathandpanlady4510 I can see your comments now. Just reached out on Instagram!

[@Shirodx]

@@Dawson.Mercer Same here. Looking to get my first handpan and would like some suggestions on a good one.

[@drcardinalli]

Just what I needed today! Thank you!!!

[@jrsoper6524]

Oh, thank you so much for the demo ❤️ 💖 ♥️ 💕 💗

[@musicalmiscellany]

Holy handpans!!! Very informative video and great comparison of the four pans. One quick note, it may have been helpful to edit in a short clip of each handpan back to back towards the end of the video. I found myself having to back up the video to hear the previous handpan and then jump forward again for comparison. I felt like I was doing a lot of scrubbing to really hear the tonal nuances. BTW, I don't say that in a way that's meant to sound negative. I always appreciate it when people give me that sort of feedback on my vids.

[@user-ze4lp6kr6w]

Thank you. We need this information 🌺 I bought my daughter a small hang to start. I chose for a long time, and you helped me a lot in this☀️

[@YourYogaFriend]

great info, thanks so much for this video

[@kasontsebastiano]

Wow I wouldn’t have imagined there is such a distinct sound with the harmonics on the expensive drum!!!

[@jefffroschauer5339]

It looks like I'm going to negatively crash this party and I apologize for that. I own 6 handpans (1Harper's handpan, 1 Zen handpan, 2 Tacta handpans and 2 Saraz handpans). The instruments you are demonstrating are quite inferior in sound compared to top shelf handpans, thus the low prices for them. I promise all of you - unless you are getting a best friend's best deal from a reputable top shelf maker, you'll most likely be spending between $2200 and $3500 for a quality handpan - and you will immediately hear the difference. Be well and happy tunes. ✌️

[@thathandpanlady4510]

Hey my friend!! I totally agree with you!! Tuning is definitely off on these…. And as we both know, the sound quality is totally different on a “good” pan as opposed to an inexpensive one. Truth once again that you get what you pay for! But for anyone looking for that “first” pan, I’d still suggest the Acolyte series thru Nirvana Handpan. That was my first pan, and it runs for $1,199 thru the Nirvana site. My other advice would be to go directly through the builders as opposed to EBay, Craig’s lists, Amazon, Guitar Center, etc. 🤗🛸🎶

[@danielbaxter9518]

I own a Harper and a Novapans' Gen 7 and I can honestly say that the sustain you get on a Gen 7 is out of this world. So it's clear now that he days of needing to spend upwards of $2000 are long gone. It's about time someone made quality handpans for quality prices after all. But hey, the Harper pan was great until Nova came around!

[@jefffroschauer5339]

Well, hopefully I'll get to the Steel Mountain festival in August and have a chance to play some of the pans you favor.

[@thathandpanlady4510]

@@jefffroschauer5339 …Hopefully? HOPEFULLY?? Dude….after a 3 year break, I’m expecting you to be there! You’re one of the ones I want to see, hug and catch up with!! You’re part of my journey!! 🤗🛸🎶🦋

[@jefffroschauer5339]

@@thathandpanlady4510 I feel the same and have every intention to be there!

[@atonegames]

I think my favorite one is the one playing them :D

[@nomadsolos]

You are right - you can indeed hear a big difference in the most expensive NovaPan drum. I love the harmonics on the lower register of this drum.

[@johnfritz2781]

Thanks again, your reviews are always helpful! Nova now has a 12 note gen 4 for $699. I would love your opinion!

[@robertdaignault]

Nova is crap

[@GPS379]

Lol novapan sounds like my grandma's brass pots. If you can spend 1400 and stretch a bit you can far better handpans, Try Svaara Handpans they are above 1500 but worth every penny

[@Cocytus]

@Musical Molly Khan - Glad you uploaded a new video. I was thinking about you yesterday. I saw an interesting instrument. It was a Harp Guitar. It's a combination acoustic guitar and harp. It sounded amazing and I think it's an instrument you'll really love. You should definitely try to see if you can pick one up for yourself. I didn't see any Harp Guitar vids on your channel so this perhaps may be a new instrument for you. Definitely would be new to your channel. Keep up the good work :) also, nice sweatshirt. Looks comfy :)

[@joebirkey5069]

Very creative pan drum

[@kirtandreamrezzer]

Thank you very much. You give a much better idea of tones and quality. 🙏🏽 ✨ 🌟 🌜 💛 🌞 💛 🌛 🌟 ✨ 🙏🏽

[@maria2400]

Oh my, it’s so hard to decide which one I like best.

[@jrsoper6524]

You know i really like the As teman , really entered into me. Many may disagree, the Asteman is the one im going to buy.

[@codeyy1989]

So for a beginner, are these worth while? I thought they sounded fine, but in the comments you have people saying that these don't do harmonics well and should only get a quality one which are $2,000. Is it worth it to pick one of these up to start? Also wonder if we could do an update on the As Teman one if it's still tuned or if it's become out of tune.

[@MrGalgold]

The products you have published are not available .. Do you have a drum recommendation available in this price range?

[@lucieangeberube2573]

Merciiiii Merciiiii.... tu es un amour maintenant je sais vraiment lequel me convient 🥰

[@Delta_Tesseract]

Hmm... I don't know. I'm a bit picky about the harmonic overtones made by singing steel sound sculptures. The relatively inexpensive ones are not a great deal after all. 2200 USD is starting to look like a better deal over all. *Cough* not that I can afford anything right now. One day! Great video. Thanks for exploring the sounds scape for us.

[@robertdaignault]

Don’t go for any of these brands .. crap

[@thathandpanlady4510]

Check out Nirvana Handpans … and in particular their Acolyte series. Good quality Handpan for someone just starting out and it’s listed for $1,199 thru their site…..it’s the first pan I ever got … nice tones … 🤗🛸🎶💕

[@SkyWolfSkydive]

Super interested in talking to you about this, I need to get one for my wife and we don’t have tons of money, is there a way I can contact you?

[@golddiamondsgdpc3035]

Did you get them from Amazon vine?

[@MusicalMollyKhan]

Nope! I bought some and the maker of NovaPans was kind enough to lend me some others to review :D

[@Reveticate]

Here's the timestamps for each scale so you can quickly cross reference: 0:47 - 4:07 - 6:51 - 8:56

[@Emet6127]

Has anyone ever had issues when ordering a handpan directly from the astemanhandpan website? I ordered one on 1/14/23 and have received zero correspondence from the company confirming my order…….aside from my bank account being debited the cost.

[@peterlaub2787]

Hands down.... Look up Axiom Handpan

[@espesp1178]

Not where you get quality pans my friend. Check out Makai instruments, Arcana instruments, Pantheon steel.

[@angelachristle2116]

💜

[@messipist]

Save your time, folks. Ayasa handpans are the only way to go. Very expensive but worth every penny. Makes all of these sound like toys.

[@talahandpans4811]

Novapan have been a middleman for years, buying what ever they can get hold of for as cheap as possible and selling it on at a higher rate.. the fact is they found someone to make them a tuned instrument for half the price the sell it for.. you shouldnt have generations of half tuned instruments going for cheaper..

[@oldtiger8181]

A great video,and I'm glad that the company send you those for free... But what people will find out as they start looking at the Hand Pan is it is a VERY overpriced instrument at $500.00 USD or higher prices. It's sad to see companies out there charges like over 20 times above their whole cost price in materials to make each instrument just to price gouge and rip people off. Not to mention it's a huge opposite of the spiritual and healing aspect that attracts people to the instrument. As a helpful comment, if people are interested in the hand pan, try to get a steel tongue drum also called a tank drum, you can find these massed produced usually in the Key of C Major and the 10 inch ones are great for around $50.00 or less. There is also "steel tongue pans" that are flatter can be played more with just the hands and is hybrid of the steel tongue drum/tank drum and hand pan. Hopefully I'm giving back more positive than the greed and negative of the companies who make the hand pan drums.

[@yohanleclaire1560]

I don’t own a handpan (yet), but I would like to add something to your comment. Usually for a quality handpan, you need to start looking between 1500$-3000$ (can go higher for other reasons). It is expensive, but you need to understand it is a hand made instrument and it is not that expensive if you take it to consideration. Obviously, since it is not that popular and hard to find, there is a lot of scam around it so you need to be careful and do research. I don’t think a lot of people recommend buying it from amazon, you better off contacting some makers.

[@deineoma1301]

Tounge and tank drums are pretty different to handpans. Tuning the latter professionally is very difficult and takes forever, hence the price

[@jamie.miller.inspiring]

I had the opposite opinion, when I watched how long some reputable builders take tuning over and over between each heat cycle i thought even at a few thousand they are cheap considering just how many hours are involved, let alone the time spent perfecting their skills to build an incredible drum. Its no different than people paying huge money for an architect, you pay for what you get in most cases!

[@oldtiger8181]

@@jamie.miller.inspiring Nope and very much wrong. The majority of theses videos you see on KZbin here are simply promotional The retail price is marked up 50 times or higher then the wholesale price to make. Also the labor has NOTHING to do with the price mark up that high, and the majority are machine made.. regardless of what you "think" you've seen.. so are grossly mistaken.

[@oldtiger8181]

@@deineoma1301 Do you feel better making that comment? I think need to repeat myself in regards to what I wrote above, so you'll actually read what I wrote: "...If people are interested in the hand pan, try to get a steel tongue drum also called a tank drum, you can find these massed produced usually in the Key of C Major and the 10 inch ones are great for around $50.00 or less. There is also "steel tongue pans" that are flatter can be played more with just the hands and is hybrid of the steel tongue drum/tank drum and hand pan." - Did you read all that? Hey, I know what the differences are and your mistaken in regards to the tuning seeing how you can tune tank / tongue drums using magnets that information has been out there for a long time.

[@turkikaboha9478]

They all sound the sAme

[@Anunaki-offspring]

Sorry but the $1400 pan sounds worse than the £600pan I bought from purses music.

[@veleslavposternak1695]

You should learn before, how to get a clear sound while playing. Rather it is not informative at all.