Open Handpan Playing Cards – Songwriting Tool for Any Scale

Map your real chords. Build progressions. Write new music.

The Open Handpan Playing Cards are a customisable PanScript™ system designed to help you map, understand and explore the real chords on your own handpan.

Each card mirrors the circular layout of a handpan but leaves the note fields blank — allowing you to fill in your exact note positions and chord shapes. Instead of using generic theory charts, you create a personalised visual “menu” based entirely on your instrument’s tuning and layout.

Choose your scale type (Minor or Major) and build a bespoke set of cards that reflects your own handpan.

Works With Your Instrument

Compatible with a wide range of handpan scales, including:

Minor-based scales such as

Pygmy, Kurd, Celtic, & Aegean.

Major / bright character scales such as

Sabye, Ashakiran, Equinox & Hijaz

Whatever your layout, you map the chords that physically exist on your pan.

How It Works

-Fill in the cards to match your instrument

-Pull two cards and practise moving between them

-Build four-card progressions and cycle through them

-Sort by colour to explore chord types

-Work through the deck in order of difficulty and usefulness

You don’t have to play every note.

PanScript™ is a menu — choose what fits your hands, your pan and the music.

Play one, two or three notes as a chord.

Or travel through them as an arpeggio.

Experiment. Refine. Discover new combinations.

What It Helps You Do

🌀 Understand where chords live on your layout

🎶 Build real chord progressions from your own instrument

🧠 Strengthen your harmonic awareness

✍️ Develop new song ideas

🌈 Learn gradually through a colour-coded structure

Designed by Rosie Bergonzi

Created by professional handpan player and educator Rosie Bergonzi, PanScript™ transforms chord theory into a tactile, visual system — helping you connect the notes under your hands with the harmony you hear.

These aren’t generic theory cards.

They become a reflection of your own handpan.