Welcome to this growing prototype zone of the PLV website! Many people keep asking me about my story of learning the art of steeltuning. This is why some milestones will be put online here. Finally! Thanks for your kind interest. This section is to be updated now and then.

Btw: Handpans at PLV are coming in series. Since 2018 some handpan series  have been created (DIOTIMA , BINGEN and RUMI) . But next to the series, which are defined by certain specific criteria and workflows, now and then experiments take place – under the title of “PAN LAB Prototypes”.

Below you will find pictures and videos arround the process of building my first handpan prototypes. It was possible because i was very stubborn first of all, willing to not give up. But the truth is, it would have still remained quite impossible, was there no help from other makers, who welcomed me to visit and inspired me to go on.

I was visiting many pan craft-workshops in europe and was meeting also many other players at festivals. It would be easy to say that the handpan-world was nearly eating me up at that time- but its not true- i was having a ‘normal’ life (also with friends outside the handpan-family) and had my own webdesign company (yourmedia) running all that time – and was working really hard to make extra-time for this quite expensive hobby, or lets call it a “way of the heart”.