{"id":112,"date":"2012-12-31T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/31\/new-prominent-instrument-selection-hang\/"},"modified":"2018-04-04T19:18:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T19:18:14","slug":"new-prominent-instrument-selection-hang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/new-prominent-instrument-selection-hang\/","title":{"rendered":"New Prominent Instrument selection: Hang Drum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-_jlBpW1ATLc\/UOF9_9SqD0I\/AAAAAAAABFw\/qa_vTS1P3_U\/s1600\/hang-drum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hang-drum.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"183\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Recently we added a few new instruments to choose from when you are browsing our royalty-free music \/ stock music catalogue based on Prominent Instrument (e.g. you click on the blue &#8220;Prominent Instruments&#8221; button on the right-hand side over our site, <b>or<\/b> choose instrument from the Advanced Browse panel).<\/p>\n<p>One of the instruments we added was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/newprop_track_list.php?prop_ref=52&amp;type=instrumentation&amp;matching=ANY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Hang Drum<\/b><\/a>. This is a very unique and nice sounding instrument which has got a lot of new fans over the past year or so. It is a melodic \/ pitched percussion instrument with a really beautiful and interesting tone.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the instrument having a very &#8220;earthy&#8221;, almost exotic, ethnic tone, it is actually a Swiss invention. It has a really natural, ancient sounding timbre which makes us think of ancient cultures, rainforests, African landscapes, South American \/ Inca \/ Maya ancient civilizations etc. This instrument sound wonderful in Ethnic \/ World type music, especially if you are trying to create an earthy \/ natural \/ tribal tone but <i>without<\/i> connecting the sound to any particular country or region.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-wLH2_JEBEkE\/UOF-JfKD1xI\/AAAAAAAABF4\/mHa_7u59a1w\/s1600\/PlayingHangDrum.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/PlayingHangDrum.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>As the time of writing this, we have <b>9 tracks<\/b> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/newprop_track_list.php?prop_ref=52&amp;type=instrumentation&amp;matching=ANY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royalty-Free Hang Drum music<\/a>, featuring prominent use of the Hang Drum, including two tracks that are available in pure, solo, Hang Drum versions without any other instruments. I&#8217;m sure more tracks will come over the coming months and years, as more of our producers discover the versatile and beautiful sound of this instrument.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently we added a few new instruments to choose from when you are browsing our royalty-free music \/ stock music catalogue based on Prominent Instrument (e.g. you click on the blue &#8220;Prominent Instruments&#8221; button on the right-hand side over our site, or choose instrument from the Advanced Browse panel). One of the instruments we added [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,98,99,82],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shockwave-sound","tag-catalogue-updates","tag-hang-drum","tag-prominent-instruments","tag-royalty-free-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1545,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/1545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}