The first sample of the instrument has been created by me in December 2013. It happened, to be honest, for the most part accidentally. Though, of course, I believe that nothing happens by accident at all.
In general, everything happened as the following:  while experimenting with the creation of reed drums, I noticed an interesting acoustic effect. This effect was that when you play the instrument at the reed drum there appeare to be additional overtones. In the future, experimenting with this effect, I tried, using technological methods, to allocate the overtone and strengthen it.
In the end, I managed to do that – the overtone sounded as I initially wanted: it added to the sound lobe certain harmonious color.
This way was born an instrument that I called GUDA. The origin of the name of the instrument is very interesting I think.  The name is basically composed of two words: “Gu” – is a hole on the bottom side of handpan and “da” – is an imitation of the sound of a hammer hitting metal.
 It turned out, that there are a lot of meanings of this word: there is the Belarusian word “guda” [Gu:da]; in Ukrainian and Russian there are verbs sounding like “gude”[gu:de], and  “gudet`”[gu:det] (to buzz).
InstrumentТs name origin could be also connected with the name of the creator: the abbreviated capital letters of my name and surname – Gubarev D.A (but due to innate modesty this theory of origin of the instruments name I put in the last place).
Whatever it was, but the set of all versions of name origin led to the decision to name the newly baked instrument Guda (GUDA). The name of a musical instrument is well documented and is a registered trademark.

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