Hello Kindred Spirits!  My name is Brynn, and I am the creator of Kindred Spirit Steel Drums, an instrument fabrication company founded in November of 2014.  We are lucky to be at the forefront of producing a new kind of instrument that is growing in popularity and gaining larger traction with musicians everyday.  I discovered melodic steel percussion in the winter of 2013, and from the first moment I laid my eyes and ears on these instruments, I was completely captivated.  From the enthralling sound they create, to their smooth and symmetrical forms, all aspects of these instruments drew me in, exciting my mind and igniting my curiosity.

When I look back to where I started all those years ago, and see where Kindred has evolved to now, the word that comes to mind is gratitude.  I am grateful for everyone that has come into my path, helping me to succeed and to be able to do what I love everyday.  Each of the instruments I create is a physical manifestation of this gratitude; a heartfelt thank you to the world we share, and for everything and everyone in it. I hope when you play your instrument you will feel the same sense of wonder, love, and gratitude that I experienced while making it for you.

At Kindred Spirit Steel Drums we are striving to create "Vitality Through Sound”.
Vitality means to be in a state of “Strength, action and energy” which I feel comes with the excitement of playing a Steel Tongue Drum, Tonguepan or Handpan.  The world is in great need of a resurrection of the unhindered experimentation with music, to return vitality to the people, and to help remove the apathy that the modern-world seems to foster in the human psyche.

Today there is a separation in our society between music players and music listeners and this does a great disservice to the collective consciousness as a whole. The ability to freely create music is one of the most healing things we can do as humans, as music has been a vehicle for spirituality and personal growth for thousands of years.

Hand-based Steel percussion has the ability to create a connection between the player and their own inner-world regardless of age or musical experience. They can be used to attain a deep meditative state, for sound healing purposes, and for the care-free experimentation with music. In this way, I believe Steel Tongue Drums, Tonguepans and Handpans can be a vehicle for transcendence and healing in ways that other instruments cannot.

I feel there is something very special about steel instruments, that resonates on a deep and profound note for many people. Iron and subsequently steel are children of the industrial age of humanity, and they have helped our species attain heights of technological precision that were thought impossible for many generations. For this reason, steel holds a special place in the roots of our collective imagination and is a visible achievement in many different facets of human endeavours.

Thank-you for considering Kindred Spirit Steel Drums.  May we soar to ever greater heights, on the wings of singing steel.

Our production facility is located in Roberts Creek on the Sunshine Coast, which is a beautiful peninsula on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada.  The Sunshine Coast is on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish (skwxwú7mesh), the Sechelt (shíshálh), the Tla’amin and Klahoose nations, whose people dwelt here long before the arrival of European settlers.

Our beautiful range of melodic steel instruments has been developed over the last 5 years as we have researched and explored the sounds of singing steel.  We have worked hard to provide the most refined playing experience possible, and know you'll love our products just as much as we have loved making them.  Our greatest wish is that these musical tools will help create "vitality through sound" for those who need to hear it most.