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handpans

handpans is the plural of handpan.

Meaning of handpan

Noun

handpan (plural handpans)

  1. A type of steelpan that is played with the hands, typically resting on the player's lap.
    • While I grew up playing brass musical instruments, I gravitated to percussion as a side music hobby as a teen and later began to collect and play African drums and other interesting percussion instruments, such as steel handpans.2016, Jeff Grant, Flow State Runner: Activate a Powerful Inner Coach's Voice, Hillseeker Publishing, →ISBN, pages 53–54

Questions about handpans

What is handpans the plural of?
Handpans is the plural of handpan.

Words near handpans in the dictionary

  1. handouts
  2. handover
  3. handovers
  4. handpainted
  5. handpan
  6. handpans
  7. handpass
  8. handpassed
  9. handpasses
  10. handpassing
  11. handpaw

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Adapted from Wiktionary: handpans (page history and authors); handpan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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