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 Post subject: The Hang is made to rest on the player's lap
PostPosted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 6:57 pm

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Here is an interesting video that demonstrates that the Hang is made to rest on the player's lap. Listen to the warm sound of the right Hang and the cold metallic sound of the left Hang:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_tqjLmOoX8

If you play two Hanghang, the second Hang needs another seat than a conventional stand - a seat that is able to "simulate" a lap. I've experimented with a Sissel Ballkissen. It cuts the Helmholtz Resonance but gives a warm sound. That the Helmholtz resonance is cut is not so important because the first Hang on the lap will add its Helmholtz resonance to the sound.

A few days before I went to Universital Hospital Münster in February 2009 to get my right leg cut off I made a last spontaneous recording with two Hanghang (and two legs ;) ), the 2nd generation (2007) resting on my lap and the Low Hang Pygmy (2005) resting on a Sissel Ballkissen:

Farewell with a Tear (45 MB)

It's a wav file (45 MB) because mp3 wasn't able to reproduce the true sound. You will need a good amplifier and good speakers to be touched by the true sound (especially the bass dimension is lost when you listen to it with low quality equipment, and this bass dimension is the heart of the 2nd generation sound). You will also hear no cold metallic sound as it would occur if the Pygmy was seated on a conventional stand.

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