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What (who) is hang back - definition

MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
The Hang; The hang; Hang (musical instrument, Hang Drum); Hang drum; Hanghang; PANArt Hang; Hang Drum; Hang (musical instrument); Hung (instrument)

hang back      
1.
If you hang back, you move or stay slightly behind a person or group, usually because you are nervous about something.
I saw him step forward momentarily but then hang back, nervously massaging his hands.
PHRASAL VERB: V P
2.
If a person or organization hangs back, they do not do something immediately.
They will then hang back on closing the deal...
Even his closest advisers believe he should hang back no longer.
PHRASAL VERB: V P on n, V P
hang back      
v. (D; intr.) to hang back from (to hang back from giving information)
hang back      
remain behind.
?show reluctance to act or move.

Wikipedia

Hang (instrument)

The Hang (German pronunciation: [haŋ]; plural form: Hanghang) is a type of musical instrument called a handpan, fitting into the idiophone class and based on the Caribbean steelpan instrument. It was created by Felix Rohner and Sabina Schärer in Bern, Switzerland. The name of their company is PANArt Hangbau AG. The Hang is sometimes referred to as a hang drum, but the inventors consider this a misnomer and strongly discourage its use.

The instrument is constructed from two half-shells of deep drawn, nitrided steel sheet glued together at the rim leaving the inside hollow and creating the shape of a convex lens. The top ("Ding") side has a center 'note' hammered into it and seven or eight 'tone fields' hammered around the center. The bottom ("Gu") is a plain surface that has a rolled hole in the center with a tuned note that can be created when the rim is struck.

The Hang uses some of the same basic physical principles as a steelpan, but modified in such a way as to act as a Helmholtz resonator. The creation of the Hang was the result of many years of research on the steelpan and other instruments. The inventors of the Hang have continued to refine the shape and materials and have produced several variations over the years.

The name Hang comes from a Bernese German word that has a double-meaning, one of which is hand and the other hillside referring to its convex shape. It is a registered trademark and property of PANArt Hangbau AG.

Growth of a worldwide interest in the Hang created a group of similar instruments that are referred to as handpans, a term coined in 2007 by the American steelpan producer Pantheon Steel.

Examples of use of hang back
1. Still, the Iraqi forces are out front, while U.S. forces hang back more and more.
2. Analysts said Russian stocks were tracking global markets, as investors hang back from putting more money in until the full extent of the deepening credit crisis is known.
3. Cleverly, though, they tend to hang back in the crease where possible, using the considerable pace, for a spinner, that he puts on the ball to work it away: put simply, they just milked him.
4. Visitors to this country take time to adjust to the fuller length that is required and, collectively, they bowled too short, allowing Collingwood to hang back and work the ball square on both sides of the wicket and Cook to stand tall and punch it away.
5. Sometimes, at the outset, there are stragglers who hang back from laughing but after a while they all come together, and then the sensation is like riding a superb horse over a familiar course, holding her back at certain jumps and urging her forward at others, always with the other riders and the spectators in mind (why I chose that particular simile is a mystery: the only time I‘ve ever been on a horse was in 1'66, outside my parents‘ terraced house in Hull, when a horse–mad school friend brought her chestnut round and I got up one side and fell down the other.) Quite often, and invariably in the front row, there will be a stone–faced man, with crossed arms and a thunderous brow, surrounded by shrieking, hooting, body–popping punters.