There are really two types of musicians; the ones who predominantly play and learn from reading sheet music, and those who play and learn by ear. Those who play by ear are great improvisers such as those who can pick up an instrument and just start playing intuitively. The handpan is a perfect example of a musical instrument whose players have been learning by ear. Any time you've tried to learn a song on the handpan or asked someone to show you something they know you probably just had to watch and learn. As with all musical instruments, however, some form of written notation as a means of independent learning and ordered progress typically comes into birth. Unfortunately, no one seems to have mustered the courage or intuition to get this started so after 20 years of its existence, young man David from a little town in England, CEO of NovaPans, will put his equalled years of classical musical education into creating a notational system for the handpan. And no, it won't involve pretty little pictures of ghosts and coloured circles (see masterthehandpan) (not that these are discouraged for visual learners) but will rather be based on the theories behind traditional music notation. Not to worry though, this won't be complicated because the system we've devised, called Simplified Handpan Notation (SHN) positions the notes of the handpan on the traditional music staves (5 lines) of sheet music in the way in which they appear on the handpan, visually! Quite conveniently, these notes are also ordered correctly from low to high on the staves which keeps it consistent with traditional handpan notation. However, the main difference between SHN and traditional sheet music is that SHN will not necessarily refer to the correct pitches, although it will indicate the note of the handpan to be played.