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High Profile Handpan Propagandists Who Promote and Perpetuate the PANArt Myth that the Hang is a New Instrument

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Over the course of the past seven months, KaribPAN has been on the cutting edge of the totally new and innovative niche of alternative steelpan news, and a siginificant portion of our news has focused on the culture and cults surrounding the handpan instrument. In fact, we have essentially single handedly created this niche in question and subsequently, we are Pan pioneers in the sense that through our blog we have provided a truthful, reality based, alternative handpan information source. A large portion of our pioneering handpan truth movement has been focused towards providing an accurate historical record of the...

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KaribPAN is Now Offering 'Low C' Bore Lead Pans w/ High Polish Chrome and FREE Fedex Intl. Economy Shipping

KaribPAN is Now Offering 'Low C' Bore Lead Pans w/ High Polish Chrome and FREE Fedex Intl. Economy Shipping

Shipping FREE directly from Trinidad & Tobago via FEDEX INTL. ECONOMY, our ''Bore'' lead pans feature a high polish chrome finish and represent the authentic culture, craftsmanship and class that this modern instrument is recognized for.  ''Bore'' pan technology provides a tonal ring with more sustain, as opposed to pans which do not have bores in the grooves and possess a shorter ring. ''Bore'' pans also provide the player with an increased volume level and brighter sound, as well as more resonation than non-bore pans. All of our instruments are 100% handcrafted from the start of the pan making process...

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Dear Handpan Mafia, Thank You For Making KaribPAN Public Enemy #1 and Keeping Our Name On The Tips of Your Tongues

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It goes without saying that the year 2016 has been a very wild ride as far as those who regularly follow online handpan discussions. Now that we are closing out the Gregorian calendar year, the online handpan roller coaster ride continues as crazy and suspenseful as ever, roaring into 2017.  In the annals of handpan history however, 2016 will inevitably go down in the steelpan history books as the year the Handpan Mafia and the general handpan community were exposed as the sham and scam that they are. And KaribPAN has been the foremost author and documenter of the Handpan...

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Introducing the Second 'D' Minor Handpan of the KaribPAN Celtic Minor Series

Introducing the Second 'D' Minor Handpan of the KaribPAN Celtic Minor Series

  KaribPAN is happy to introduce the second 'D' minor handpan of our Celtic Minor Series: Brand new, finely tuned KaribPAN handpan in D Minor. This instrument is our second sound sculpture installation as part of our Celtic Minor Series. Free FedEX International Economy Shipping and 1 FREE TUNING is included with this offer.  For more information and ordering details, please visit our online store. Notes: D, E, F G, A, Bb, C, D    

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The Relationship Between Handpans, Hinduism and the White Supremacist Steelpan Hegemony

Author: Rudy Kendall

Given the multiple articles that KaribPAN has published this year concerning the neo-colonization of the steelpan instrument vis-a-vis the Hang/handpan, it is clear that white supremacy is the underlying ideology of the Handpan Mafia and the overwhelming majority of the members of the wider online ''handpan community''. If subliminal Nazi swastika logos courtesy of a German by the name of Jeremy ''Germy'' Arndt, and KKK Party Veterans logos by Mana Steel (from Israel of all places) were not enough to convince our readers of our initial premise that the ''handpan community'' is by and large a white supremacist cult, then those unconvinced...

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