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violent or derelict crowd. It was unacceptable for women to be involved in such activities. Culturally the stigma was focused on the idea that women belonged in the home or with the children and not out in the street with the pan players. As the instrument became more mainstream women were allowed to join and the stigma that went along with playing the instrument subsided.
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music competition. Bands that perform all year round (both in
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The size of the instrument varies from one pan to another. It may have almost all of the "skirt" (the cylindrical part of the oil drum) cut off and around 30 soprano-range notes. It may use the entire drum with only three bass notes per pan, in which case one person may play six such pans. The length
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to be sold at slave auctions. Persons of the same tribes and languages were deliberately separated and sold to different enslavers in an attempt to eradicate their traditions. In most cases, enslavers did not allow them to speak in their native tongues, forcing them to give up tradition and learn the
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wood. These were hit onto the ground and with other sticks in order to produce sound. Tamboo bamboo bands included percussion of a (gin) bottle and spoon. By the mid-1930s, bits of metal percussion were being used in the tamboo bamboo bands, the first probably being either the automobile brake hub
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established a presence in
Trinidad. The pannists, who were associated with lawlessness and violence, helped to popularise steelpan music among the soldiers, which began its international popularisation. At the time of the steelpan's popularity in Trinidad it was seen as being associated with a
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further makes a strobe tuner a necessity for steelpan tuning. Steelpan makers have used strobe tuners since it was discovered that, by adjusting the overtones (first (fundamental), second, and third partial), the pan's sound seemed to sparkle in a way that it did not previously.
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A pan is played using a pair of straight sticks tipped with rubber; the size and type of rubber tip varies according to the class of pan being played. Some musicians use four pansticks, holding two in each hand. This grew out of
Trinidad and Tobago's early 20th-century
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Company. Although first results were promising, the project has been abandoned due to lack of finances and support by local pan tuners in
Trinidad. Another method of shaping the pan was attempted: by spinning. The pan was spun on a
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was hired for its cast, he suggested the incorporation of three drummers from his dance company, Michael
Alexander (who made the instruments), Roderick Clavery, and Alphonso Marshall; the three doubled as dancers in the show.
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dates back to 1946, both in calypso tempo (known as "The Bomb") and straight (generally in concert or music festival contexts). In these contexts, accuracy and faithfulness to the original are highly prized.
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by using multiple pans, particularly for the bass registers, which have fewer notes per pan owing to the larger sizes of the lower note areas. Following are some of the most popular instruments:
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choice, in a concert-style venue. Panorama, the largest steelband contest in the world, occurs during
Carnival celebrations in Trinidad. In 2020, the world's first online steelpan competition,
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Despite being a relatively new member of the percussion family, steelpan tuning techniques have advanced rapidly. Strobe tuners are ideally suited for the task. The need to see the first few
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Electronic steelpans have also been developed. One such version is the E-Pan, invented by Salmon Cupid, who holds utility patents for it. Another is the Percussive Harmonic Instrument (PHI).
1412:"News to Us: The Trinidad Steel Band Drum." The Instrumentalist, June 1961, 24. Sold by Drum City Enterprises of Hollywood, CA; photographed with Los Angeles studio percussionist Roy Harte.
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1972:Stuempfle, Stephen.
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1014:"World Steelpan Day"
907:Len "Boogsie" Sharpe
283:Carnival in Trinidad
182:The modern pan is a
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2102:Keyboard percussion
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1828:Blake, Felix I. R.
1825:8 (1): 26–56, 1987.
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1643:"2004 UK PANORAMA"
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1487:"About the P.H.I."
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1453:Napeinc.com
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958:Darren Dyke
932:Yann Tomita
902:Liam Teague
803:jazz fusion
751:Twelve Bass
356:frying pans
217:Pythagorean
178:Description
61:Other names
2445:Categories
2400:Drum stick
2305:Wood block
2280:Tambourine
2270:Snare drum
2140:Vibraphone
2004:Pan Jumbie
1689:1079400580
1130:0812233298
1000:References
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917:Andy Akiho
897:Ray Holman
825:Spyro Gyra
718:Tenor Bass
587:Instrument
444:tenor (1),
362:lids, and
352:Laventille
327:involving
141:steel drum
74:Percussion
18:Steel Drum
2260:Mark tree
2225:Castanets
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2145:Xylophone
2130:Tubaphone
2009:PanoGrama
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1155:21 August
1045:20 August
791:PanoGrama
740:Nine Bass
593:Inventor
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558:overtones
551:hardening
534:tessitura
505:in 2000.
495:nitriding
368:U.S. Navy
364:oil drums
321:Canboulay
287:blackface
209:idiophone
201:steel pan
168:August 11
166:declared
145:steelband
98:1880–1937
95:Developed
2349:Drum kit
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2168:Steelpan
2158:Handbell
2115:Crotales
2110:Carillon
2032:27 April
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1708:AllMusic
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1564:19 April
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1237:cite web
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976:See also
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782:Panorama
778:calypsos
729:Six Bass
710:Baritone
699:Baritone
688:Baritone
685:Quadduet
416:Liberace
304:and all
271:Trinidad
267:abducted
225:Carnival
133:steelpan
40:Steelpan
2333:Octapad
2285:Tam-tam
2255:Maracas
2245:Cymbals
2240:Cowbell
2205:Bodhrán
2178:Timpani
2163:Handpan
2125:Marimba
1375:26 July
1261:Bbc.com
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627:Soprano
614:Soprano
601:Soprano
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187:pitched
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675:Tenor
664:Tenor
590:Pitch
549:, or
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88:Gongs
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