Sounds of a Switzerland Hang
Posted on September 30, 2006
Filed Under Travel
I was having lunch outside on the patio at a Bistro restaurant on the streets of Dublin Ireland, when I heard a nice soothing sound playing. At first I thought it was the restaurants music playing on the speakers, but then I saw a crowd build up across from me. I figured it was probably a guy playing something interesting. But what instrument was it? At first it sounded like a piano, but it couldn’t be. That’s nothing interesting for a crowd to watch. I listened some more and came to the conclusion that it sounded more like the Jamaican steel drums.Â
After I finished lunch, I approached the guy and asked him what it was. He said it is a new instrument from Switzerland called a Hang. He mentioned that it was a modified version of the Jamaican Steel Drums. Ha! I was close. It’s hard to describe the instrument, so here is a picture of it. Yes I paid for the picture with some of my coins.
 
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