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Hapi Drums from Soundiron is a set of four steel tongue drums crafted by legendary instrument makers Grahm Doe and Tricia Kelly at their workshop in the Sierra Mountain foothills of Oakhurst, CA. Steel tongue instruments are known for a smooth fundamental tone wrapped in a haze of complex harmonics and a long, mellow sustain.
Hapi Drums features unique body designs, tuning options, and clear, rich notes that cut cleanly through clusters of carefully balanced lush and swirling overtones. The collection was recorded from four instruments, capturing each of them with a wide stereo pair of large-diaphragm Neumann TLM 103s and a binaural Rode NT-SF1, to provide you with two distinct tonal options.
Instruments include the low Origin D-minor model (D3-A4), a pair of Slim Tunable mid models (A3-E5), and the small, treble Tini (A4-A5). Each model can be loaded separately, including individual tongue soloing, or you can play all of them together as a combined chromatic scale. Each one was played with soft rubber mallets, hard metal picks, and nylon jazz brushes.