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Helen · **Posted:** Fri Apr 10, 2009 5:20 pm

Hi All,
I would just like to wish this reborn hang forum and its members healing music making and good communication. I am from Trinidad and heard the sounds of what I took to be a steel pan in 2001 in the back of Ray Man's shop in Chalk Farm and discovered the hang. Got one for my guy because he is the musician and artist and I have one now also that I am hesitantly getting to know. I had very bad music experiences at school in lessons.
Alex (now 68) took the new hang out in the streets of London and wherever he went he noticed the post 9/11 police with their machine guns getting a bit twitchy and staring at him. The hang is shaped like a giant land mine and gunmetal gray, concerned with the police attention, he painted the hang and then sanded it to make it look old and well used and more like an acceptable less threatening object. The first and only person to our and Sabina's knowledge to paint the hang which he has taken about 3 times to New Zealand's Whitianga and played at the Gypsy Fair. I am 63, healed by the magic and transported back to my island or the mountain air of the Bernese Oberland and I have been blessed by hearing Ravid play at the Hanghaus.
Old we might be but not in action and spirit and the world has been made new with hang hang.
Best wishes,
Helen
"You can't put it together it is together" Whole Earth Catalogue

Funky · **Posted:** Fri Apr 10, 2009 5:37 pm

Hi Helen,

thank you for your very nice introduction. Welcome!

I am sure you have a lot of to share with the community. Have fun!
Is there a picture from the painted Hang?

Greetings
Frank

Helen · **Posted:** Fri Apr 10, 2009 6:29 pm

Hi Frank
Yes there is but I don't know how to put it on the site, it's a .jpg and you can see it in the photos bit of the yahoo hang group site if you belong to it.
Best wishes,
Helen

Ixkeys · **Posted:** Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:03 pm

Helen wrote:

Yes there is but I don't know how to put it on the site, it's a .jpg and you can see it in the photos bit of the yahoo hang group site if you belong to it.

I think this is one of the pictures you meant:

Ix

Helen · **Posted:** Mon Apr 13, 2009 4:52 am

Hi,
Thanks for putting it up.
Helen

michael colley · **Posted:** Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:11 pm

i met you and alex at the festival in berne i believe?.... alex was telling us about the leather carry straps he made for them... i believe he plays with the hang near his feet and not in his lap..? felix said that they came to see you when they visited us in england a couple of years ago?

hope you are well and welcome to the forum

IchderHugo · **Joined:** Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:49 am **Posts:** 67

Very nice look !!

I think the hang hang look much more friendly in this condition.
I can’t believe, that someone imagine a bomb, when he see the hang in the normal outer appearance, but a lot of people compare it with a double Wok or UFO ( sideface ) or a Vikings buckler. ( topview ). :lol:

IchderHugo

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