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Mysterious, slightly unexpected, and full of shifting sea light, this curious, haunting, and deeply alluring hexatonic tuning is a different expression of the same key and mode as our Ursa [...]

Named for the twice-yearly balancing of day and night, when extremes are set aside to integrate; Equinox partakes equally of contentment and tranquility, yearning and melancholy. Very open, and [...]

The Big Bear is “a seven-tone version of our Da Xiong Diao, retaining its harmonic complexity, but gaining the sonic clarity of a seven-tone tuning. As yearning as [...]

A dark mysterious minor, with a slightly exotic yearning quality and enough dissonance to be forever interesting. Wandering in the periwinkle light of ageless endless summer dusk. Justifiably an [...]

Subdued but striving, Kumo for us evokes steely patterns of light on blue green waves. This sound model combines the classic handpan tunings Pygmy and Ake Bono with a result more understated [...]

Wholesome and invigorating to play, the Halo Mandarin