When we were toddlers, we learned the simplest scale, which is C major that includes the following notes: C D E F G A B. By changing the intervals and picking up different notes from different octaves, you get different types of musical scales like B minor, G Pygmy, G minor pentatonic and etc.
Why all the
handpans/tongue drum have should be tuned in a particular scale? It's like the eye color – one specific characteristic that was given at your drum's birth. Once the drum is built, the scale cannot be changed. A particular combination of notes gives a specific mood or flavor to any music played on this particular handpan. So choosing the handpan scale is actually about choosing the mood, the feel of the music you'd like to get by playing your hand drum.
Best handpan scalesHow to choose a handpan scale? There are certain categories and different types of scales. Music theory determines many of them, but here are a few you can find through the RAV Pan collection.