Talk:Hang (instrument)

message: Here is the /Archive of older discussions. --Ixkeys (talk) 09:09, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

message: The hang ist not correct categorized in the Category Swiss musical instruments. It has Trinidadian and European roots but no special Swiss roots. It is built in Switzerland but not a part of a national Swiss culture, neither if looked at hang making nor if looked at hang playing. -- Ixkeys (talk) 09:11, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category Swiss musical instruments 

message: As the word 'hang' is a word in standard English and the word 'Hang' is the name of an instrument it is helpful to separate out Hang as referring to the instrument with a capital.  It can be considered a  brand name or trademark it seems appropriate to capitalize it as well (e.g. Chevy Impala not Chevy impala). --GotHang (talk) 00:55, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree ("Hang" is a trademark). But I'm not a native English speaker and not sure in the rules of Capitalization in English. --Ixkeys (talk) 17:47, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I put a link to the relevant  Wikipeida English Capitalization article. --GotHang (talk) 08:47, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Because Hang is a trademark there is a reason to capitalize it. (I decided to do this in all my own English publications). In the publications by PANArt there is a mixed praxis. In some publications the single word "hang" is not capitalized but "Integral Hang" or "Free Integral Hang" are capitalized. In other publications "Hang" is strictly capitalized. Today I've asked Felix Rohner and Sabina Schärer for their opinion. They prefer capitalization. Therefor I think there isn't any reason not to capitalize Hang in the Wikipedia article: It is correct spelling, better readable and the owners of the trademark prefer it too. Let's do it. --Ixkeys (talk) 14:12, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. --Ixkeys (talk) 14:32, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalization of the name 

message: The "blind spot mirror" on top, what is its purpose?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.26.22.182 (talk) 22:21, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is the purpose of the Ding dome? 

message: The introduction of the article says that the hang drum is made from 'deep drawn' steel, but there is no link.  An article describing the deep drawing process for metal forming is  here.  I think the article would benefit from adding a link to the 'deep drawing' article.  Musicians interested in making their own hang drum would learn about the fabrication process, and metal formers would learn about practical applications of deep drawing (by using the 'what links here' tool.) ...follow the trail (talk) 05:44, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the deep drawing link for two reasons: 1. there is no reference offered to verify it, and 2. until this fact can be verified, the appearance of the drum itself suggests that it is actually not deep drawn at all so this may just be nonsense.  From the deep drawing article: "The process is considered "deep" drawing when the depth of the drawn part exceeds its diameter."   The hang does not fit this description.  Please add the link back if it comes with a reference. --Ds13 (talk) 21:56, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Using deep drawing for the raw form was one of the main developments PANArt created in the middle of the 1990th. There are a number of references. I added one in the article. Other references: Sabina Schärer: Die Rohform. In 10 Jahre PANArt. Page 23-24) or THE TECHNOLOGY OF A NEW RAWFORM. --Ixkeys (talk) 07:58, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Using the company/inventors' blog or papers as a source for an article on their product seems acceptable under WP:ABOUTSELF, so I think it's fine now.  Thanks! --Ds13 (talk) 19:02, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: just because the company say it's deep drawn doesn't make it so. The depth is clearly less than the diameter - I suppose it sounds more 'mystical' than 'pressed steel' which would be much more accurate. Drawing involves considerable thinning of the metal and that requires much greater distortion. Stub Mandrel (talk) 16:45, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding Link to 'Deep Drawing' 

message: There was a main modification of ambiguous titles of musical instrument articles.
The majority were disambiguated by using (instrument), the minority by using (musical instrument). 
So it seems reasonable to change the title of the Hang article accordingly. See also: User talk:Ixkeys --Ixkeys (talk) 16:10, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moving [[Hang (musical instrument)]] to [[Hang (instrument)]] 

message: Is the one company making Hangs still around? The company does not have a website and i would call the number provided to find out but one i do not know the language and two i do not know if that will be a valid thing to site a number being down as proof the company is gone. The latest version of the hang sited the wikipedia page is from 2008 and most websites about the hang were last updated in 2009.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.3.139.93 (talk) 23:55, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: No. The PANArt Hangbau AG doesn't have an own website but still exists and builds the Free Integral Hang. The latest communication by PANArt is from 2011 and you can find it here: http://www.hangblog.org/publications-by-panart-in-the-hang-library/ - obviously updated long after 2009 ;-) PANArt's publicly available phone number was canceled years ago (I think in 2006 or perhaps earlier). If you try the number you can find on the internet you will receive the ugly noise of a fax machine. There are so many ignorant copy-and-paste-internet-users who copy that number again and again on the Internet never checking whether the information is correct or not. But this is a nice tool to check the quality of Internet publications about the Hang: If you find the phone number in a publication you can be sure that the publication is based on no or very bad research: Forget it. ;-) --Ixkeys (talk) 19:56, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Hang Dead?

message: In my opinion the statement "[haŋ], with vowel sound between those of the words hot and hungry" is reduntant since the correct template  already links to the page Wikipedia:IPA for German.--Carnby (talk) 13:34, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I support your deletion of this phrase because the pronunciation of hot and hungry can vary from one English speaking country or region to another. Also not native speakers speaking English with an accent could be confused. --Ixkeys (talk) 19:56, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: Dimadick added the WikiProject Switzerland and the category Swiss instrument without any explanation to this article. I have deleted both. The project page says: "This project covers the creation, expansion and curation of articles related to Switzerland, its cantons, geography, history, economy, politics, society, people, culture and spirit."
I cannot see any reason why this project covers the Hang in any way. The Hang is not a Swiss instrument. There isn't any relationship to to a special Swiss music culture. If you want to add the project or the category again, please explain before in detail, why the Switzerland Project covers this article or why the Hang is a Swiss instrument. --Ixkeys (talk) 16:25, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Switzerland Project? Swiss instrument?

message: There has been a merge request to merge handpan and Hang (instrument) since March 2020. So far there has been no discussion. So I'm starting one now.--Salix alba (talk): 11:27, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: A messy business; there's also Gubal (instrument) to consider. I suggest that the articles are kept separate, as they do have different scope; there is also active (as of January 2021) litigation, so best left for time to decide. Klbrain (talk) 23:25, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger discussion 

message: It's not German, it's specifically Bernese German. The word Hang means hand in Bernese German. Markushausammann (talk) 23:33, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation