Horayzon Professional Handpan | C# Kurd / Annaziska | Stainless steel

Horayzon Professional Handpan C# Kurd / Annaziska – Perfect for advanced handpan players & musicians

The Horayzon Professional Handpan series is the ideal instrument for beginners and advanced handpan players who are looking for excellent sound quality and creative freedom without having to invest in the highest price segment. Each instrument in this series is manufactured with high precision and great care to meet even the most demanding musical expectations. These handpans perfectly combine innovative, modern construction and traditional craftsmanship.

Features of the Horayzon Professional Handpan Series:

Complex keys and tone sequences:

The Horayzon Professional Handpans are available in a wide range of keys and variations with up to 16 notes. The complex note sequences make them ideal for sophisticated melodies and rhythms, perfect for both your solo playing experience and for playing together with other instruments.

Impressive variety of sounds:

The Horayzon Professional Handpans are characterized by their rich sonority and dynamics. Whether you want to create meditative sounds or play powerful melodies and percussive rhythms - these handpans offer you the flexibility to fully express your musical creativity. Embark on an intuitive sound journey and explore deep emotional and musical forms of expression.

High-quality materials:

Made from selected materials, the Horayzon Professional Handpans not only offer outstanding sound characteristics, but also durability and robustness. Each instrument is manufactured to withstand the demands of intensive use and to retain its tuning stability for a long time.

Perfect balance of craftsmanship and technology:

The combination of the latest manufacturing techniques with traditional craftsmanship ensures that every Horayzon Professional Handpan is an instrument of the highest quality. The careful tuning of the tones and the attention to detail in the manufacturing process make this series an outstanding choice for every handpan player, regardless of playing experience.

Why the Horayzon Professional Handpan?

The Horayzon Professional Handpan series is ideal for anyone who wants to develop their musical skills and discover new worlds of sound. These handpans allow you to reach your full potential and implement complex musical ideas with ease. Whether you are on stage, as a street artist, recording in the studio or just playing for yourself - with a Horayzon Professional Handpan you have an instrument that accompanies and inspires you on every step of your musical journey.

Conclusion:

Whether you are an experienced handpan player or looking for an instrument that will ideally develop your creative skills, the Horayzon Professional Handpan offers you everything you need to take your musical journey to a new level. With its impressive variety of sounds, precise manufacturing and aesthetic beauty, every Horayzon Professional Handpan is the ideal instrument and a faithful companion on your way to perfecting your handpan playing.

Immerse yourself in the world of sounds and discover how far your musical creativity can go with a Horayzon Handpan. Now available in the online shop - start your next musical adventure!

Diameter: 53 cm
Height approx: 26.5cm
Weight: approx. 4kg
Material: stainless steel

Mood description: Kurd
Synonyms: Aeolian / Kurd with root C# = "Annaziska"
Basic tone sequence (8+1) : C#/ G# ABC# D# EF# G#
Effect : Warm - Mysterious - Dreamy
Tone range : Heptatonic

Mode :
Phrygian (tonal center 1st note) = major
or Aeolian (tonal center Ding ) = minor
Tone range: Heptatonic

Semitones: 7 - 1 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 3 - 2 - 2
Tonal center: DING or first tone

Mood description Kurd:

The Kurd tuning is, if you will, the natural minor variant of the handpan tunings. Due to its particularly harmonious composition of notes, it is particularly suitable for beginners. With it, you can play everything from calm and meditative to melancholic to powerful and cheerful, with a wide variety of styles.

Even though this mood can sound very sentimental, you can create cheerful sounds with it. For example, the second and third notes each produce a major triad. Just be aware that the second and third notes will be played at the same time. You can of course also use this tension consciously to spice up your playing and make the relaxation more effective afterwards. 

This tuning is one of the first seven-tone tunings ever built, and has become very popular through some videos on the Internet.

Origin and music theory of the Kurdish tuning:

Kurd takes the name of the Arabic/Turkish maqam Kurd. This selection of tones also shares the arrangement of the tones with this maqam, assuming that the tonal center is on the first tone in the circle. This creates the complete Phrygian mode, which is characterized by a semitone step (semitone) from the root note to the second note of the scale and is responsible for the mysterious sound of the scale.

However, an ambivalence remains, as the DING is a fifth below the first note and thus acts like a second tonal center, which allows the mode to change to Aeolian (natural minor). Depending on the playing style, you can switch between natural minor and Phrygian sound character. With Kurd you can play everything from calm and meditative to melancholic to powerful and cheerful, with a wide variety of styles.

Kurd shares with other minor variations (cf. Celtic Minor/ Integral) the jump of a fifth from the DING to the first tone. From this fifth step, assuming that the tonal center is the DING, one has all the tonal steps of a natural minor scale (Aeolian). What is special about Kurd is the semitone step (semitone) between the first and second tone. This step is also present in the Maqam Kurd (Arabic or Turkish scale system) of the same name (cf. Semai Kurd), but also in the Phrygian mode. The Phrygian mode is used in jazz, psychedelic rock, flamenco and fado, but also in classical music. 

Possible tone sequences:

Sequence of 9 notes: C#/ G# ABC# D# EF# G#
Sequence of 10 notes:
Sequence of 11 notes:
12-note sequence:
Sequence of 13 notes:
14-note sequence:
Sequence of 15 notes:
16-note sequence:

* Bottom notes are additional tone fields on the bottom of the handpan and are written in round brackets e.g. (DE).

Mutant handpans have additional notes on the upper shell in the second row - between the chorus and the root note. Mutant notes are written in curly brackets, e.g. {DE}.

→ You can read a detailed article about Mutant & Bottom-Note Handpans here: Blog post

→ Discover our full range of Mutant & Bottom Note Handpans here

We only list the standard layouts under "Possible note sequences". On request, our handpans can also be made with other notes and in other arrangements. Simply write an email with your request to: service@handpan.world

Suitable moods:
Very suitable for collaborative, improvisational playing:

• E Sabye (parallel key)
  
• E Major (parallel key)
  
• C# Celtic Minor / Amara
  
• F# Celtic Minor / Amara
• C# Aeolian
  
• A Aegean
• C# Equinox
• C# Magic Voyage
• C# Integral
• C# Pygmy
  

Also good for composing together:

• G# or Ab Celtic Minor / Amara
• G# or Ab Hijaz
• B Kurd
• B Celtic Minor / Amara
  
• E Ragadesh