Alex teaches individual and group lessons on the D Kurd and gives occasional workshops. His first tip comes straight from Malte: touch the note as if it were a hot stove you don't want to burn yourself on, and draw the sound out of the handpan instead of pushing it in. As soon as people try it, Alex says, the whole room starts smiling.

He remembers his own start well: on the first day he couldn't get a single nice sound, so he took a break, came back the next day and explored which part of the finger works on which part of the note. Tell us which models you would like to try. Visits by appointment only.