Aelo Handpan E Kurd | stainless steel

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The Aelo Handpan is characterized by a warm and long-lasting sound.
Due to the perfectly balanced aftertaste and the balanced vibration development, the Aelo handpan is the perfect combination of percussion and melody instrument. Even the lightest of touches produce fine and distinctive sounds. This ensures an expressive and detailed sound performance.

The AeloPans are ideal for both beginners and professional musicians. Due to their above-average sound volume, they are also particularly well suited for playing in large rooms or outdoors in nature and public spaces.

Fascinating sound patterns can be created with the particularly intuitive and easy-to-play Aelo Handpan. The soundscape ranges from simple to complex. Inexhaustible possibilities are offered to the player; from more complicated rhythms, virtuosic melodies to touching chords and two-part melodies; the AeloPan can be combined in many ways.

The uniquely soft, ethereal and mysterious sounds of the instrument quickly draw the listener's attention. The soothing sound takes you on an inner journey. The fascinating timbre of the Aelo Handpan is ideal for concerts, studio recordings, street music, as well as for musical accompaniment for spiritual activities such as yoga, sound therapy or meditation.

The high-quality material, rustproof and corrosion-resistant stainless steel, gives the handpan its shine and elegant appearance. The material is robust and easy to care for. Due to the slightly higher material thickness compared to conventional stainless steel handpans, the AeloPans are more durable in tuning stability and less susceptible to impacts and falls.

Like every handpan, the AeloPans consist of two composite stainless steel shells that form the body of the sound. During the manufacturing process, the tone fields are painstakingly worked into the curved surface by hand and then precisely tuned. Since the process is manual, there are dents and bumps in the tone field - this is quite normal and is part of the optical character of a good handpan.

The Aelo Handpan is professional and perfectly tuned. It impresses with quality and sound at the highest level. The handpan has an optimal and well-balanced resonance vibration across all tones. Disturbing metallic sounds do not arise when playing. The timbre is warm and powerful. The reverberation behavior of the individual tones is reinforced by the solid stainless steel.

Mood designation : Kurd
Basic tone sequence (8+1): D/ A Bb CDEFGA
Effect : Warm - Mysterious - Dreamy
Tone Stock: Heptatonic

Mode : Phrygian (tonal center 1st note ) = major
or Aeolian (tonal center: Bb) = minor

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

Mood description Kurd:

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

Even if this mood can sound very sentimental, you can create happy sound patterns with it. For example, there is a major triad on the second and third notes. Just be aware that the second and third notes played at the same time will be rubbing, you can of course also use this tension consciously to spice up your playing so that the relaxation can have a stronger effect afterwards.

This tuning is one of the first seven-note tunings that were built and has become very popular through some videos on the internet.

Possible tone sequences:

Basic tone sequence with 9 notes: D/ A Bb CDEFGA

Tone sequence with 10 notes: (as in the video) D/ A Bb CDEFGAC

Tone sequence with 11 notes:

Option 1: D/ (FG) A Bb CDEFGA
Option 2: D/A bB CDEFGA (CD)

Tone sequence with 12 notes:

Option 1: D/ (FG) A Bb CDEFGAC
Option 2: D/A bB CDEFGAC (DE)

Tone sequence with 13 notes:
Option 1: D/(FG)A bB CDEFGA (CD)
Option 2: D/A bB CDEFGA (CDEF)


Tone sequence with 14 notes:
Option 1: D/(FG)A bB CDEFGAC(DE)
Option 2: D/ A Bb CDEFGAC (DEFG）


Tone sequence with 15 notes:
Option 1: D/(FG)A bB CDEFGAC(DEF)

Tone sequence with 16 notes:
Option 1: D/(FG)A bB CDEFGAC(DEFG)

Tone sequence with 17 notes:
Option 1: D/( EFG ) A Bb CDEFGAC(DEFG)
Option 2: D/(FG) A Bb CDEFGAC (DEFGA)

*Notes in brackets are "Bottomnotes" (notes on the bottom of the handpan)
On request, these can also be built with other grades than specified. Simply write an email with your request to: service@handpan.world

Origin and music theory of the Kurd tuning:

Kurd adopts 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 is how the full Phrygian mode is created, which is characterized by a semitone step from the root to the second tone 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 tone and thus appears as a second tonal center, which allows the mode to change to Aeolian (natural minor). Depending on how you play, you can switch between natural minor and Phrygian sound character. With Kurd , everything can be played in a variety of ways, from calm and meditative to melancholic to powerful and happy.

Kurd shares with other minor variations (cf. Celtic Minor/ Integral) the jump from a fifth from DING to the first note. From this fifth degree, assuming that the tonal center is the THING, one has all the steps of a natural minor scale (Aeolian). What is special about Kurd is the semitone step 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.

Matching Moods:
Very well suited for playing together, improvisatively:

• F Sabye (parallel key)
• F major (parallel key)
• D Celtic Minor / Amara
• G Celtic Minor / Amara
• D Aeolian
• Bb Aegean
• D equinox
• D Magic Voyage
• D integral
• D Pygmy

Also good for composing together:

• A Celtic Minor / Amara
• A Hijaz
• C Kurd
• C Celtic Minor / Amara
• F Ragadesh