Mana Hang

The Hang is a musical instrument that was created in 2000 by Felix Rohner and Sabina Schärer  (PANArt Hangbau AG). The Hang is played with the hand and fingers, there is a central note (Ding) withther 7 or 8 tone fields surrounding the ding, on the underside is a resonant opening (Gu).  The sound from the Hang is very unique and sounds beautiful and mesmerising.

‘Hang’ in the Bernese dialect means ‘Hand’.

It wasn’t until I visited Tahiti that I truly discovered what Mana was and now I realise it is a part of us all and surrounds us. Mana is an uncontrollable force or quality that resides in people, animals, and inanimate objects. In Polynesian culture, Mana is a spiritual quality considered to have supernatural origin – a sacred impersonal force existing in the universe.

Its difficult to explain but we all know its there but sometimes we dont acknowledge it is around us or in our surroundings.

It is simply life itself….