Xenith Handpans
The Xenith: a high-quality handpan for an introductory price.
The Xenith is a high-quality instrument for an introductory price. The Xenith is the result of years of work, listening to community feedback, and in response to the growing market of high-priced, low-quality handpans. The Xenith is also an invitation to those who have been unable to join the handpan community due to the high-priced nature of high-quality instruments. The Xenith embodies everything that is special about these instruments; sustain, harmonics, and bloom captured in the most classic scales and crafted into a playable and portable medium-sized handpan.
Finding success and staying inspired in 2020 was a herculean task. Massive economic shifts, a worldwide pandemic, social lockdowns, international travel restrictions, and personal isolation are just a few of the incredible challenges that we all faced -- and are still facing. In early 2020, I was set to move my workshops and was in the later stages of developing the RADIX. It was already set to be a year of massive personal and professional transitions and then COVID hit. As all that transpired, an idea from years ago began to resurface.
What do you do when you have an idea that you think could drastically improve upon current production methods? What do you do when you develop a process that renders your previous processes obsolete? These are the questions I asked myself in 2015 when I was developing my hydroforming process. The answer to those questions was to pursue and develop the idea and then fully adopt and integrate it. I still get questioned why I abandoned my previous method of hand sinking shells. While that was a viable process that created high-quality instruments, it was unsustainable and hydroforming made it obsolete.
A new idea raised those same questions again in 2016. The answer to those questions was to again pursue and develop the idea. Unfortunately, this time it didn't get through the development stage. Major roadblocks were hit, and the idea was put on the back burner and eventually abandoned. While it was set aside, I held onto the initial research and data that was gathered.
This idea resurfaced again in late 2019. Technology had changed and what was thought impossible was suddenly very possible. I brushed off my idea from 2016 and pursued and developed it across 2020. As of now, I have fully adopted and integrated it. And what about previous methods and processes? Similar to the shift from me handsinking shells, for me, my hydroforming process is now obsolete.
Xeno: Different in origin
Zenith: The point in the sky or celestial sphere directly above an observer
Xeno + Zenith = Xenith
The Xenith is a high-quality instrument for an introductory price. The Xenith is the result of years of work, listening to the community's feedback, and in response to the growing market of high-priced, low-quality handpans. The Xenith is also an invitation to those who have been unable to join the handpan community due to the high-priced nature of high-quality instruments.
The Xenith embodies everything that is special about these instruments; sustain, harmonics, and bloom captured in the most classic scales and crafted into a playable and portable medium-sized handpan.
What do you do when you have an idea that you think could drastically improve upon current production methods? What do you do when you develop a process that renders your previous processes obsolete? These are the questions I asked myself in 2015 when I was developing my hydroforming process. The answer to those questions was to pursue and develop the idea and then fully adopt and integrate it. I still get questioned why I abandoned my previous method of hand sinking shells. While that was a viable process that created high-quality instruments, it was unsustainable and hydroforming made it obsolete.
A new idea raised those same questions again in 2016. The answer to those questions was to again pursue and develop the idea. Unfortunately, this time it didn't get through the development stage. Major roadblocks were hit, and the idea was put on the back burner and eventually abandoned. While it was set aside, I held onto the initial research and data that was gathered.
This idea resurfaced again in late 2019. Technology had changed and what was thought impossible was suddenly very possible. I brushed off my idea from 2016 and pursued and developed it across 2020. As of now, I have fully adopted and integrated it. And what about previous methods and processes? Similar to the shift from me handsinking shells, for me, my hydroforming process is now obsolete.
Xeno: Different in origin
Zenith: The point in the sky or celestial sphere directly above an observer
Xeno + Zenith = Xenith
The Xenith is a high-quality instrument for an introductory price. The Xenith is the result of years of work, listening to the community's feedback, and in response to the growing market of high-priced, low-quality handpans. The Xenith is also an invitation to those who have been unable to join the handpan community due to the high-priced nature of high-quality instruments.
The Xenith embodies everything that is special about these instruments; sustain, harmonics, and bloom captured in the most classic scales and crafted into a playable and portable medium-sized handpan.
