handpan

plural handpans

1. entertainmentA type of steelpan that is played with the hands, typically resting on the player's lap.

   While I grew up playing brass musical instruments, I gravitated to percussion as a side music hobby as a teen and later began to collect and play African drums and other interesting percussion instruments, such as steel handpans.

   2016, Jeff Grant, Flow State Runner: Activate a Powerful Inner Coach's Voice, Hillseeker Publishing, →ISBN, pages 53–54