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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › SteelpanSteelpan - Wikipedia

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   The steelpan (also known as a pan, steel drum, and sometimes, collectively with other musicians, as a steelband or steel orchestra) is a musical instrument originating in Trinidad and Tobago. Steelpan musicians are called pannists.

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     A steel tongue drum, tank drum, or hank drum is a round...

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     Steel drums are ubiquitous industrial shipping containers....

2. www.bbc.com › news › magazine-18903131A brief history of the steel pan - BBC News

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   Jul 24, 2012 · The steel pan, often referred to incorrectly as a steel drum, emerged in the 1930s. Metal objects including car parts, paint pots, dustbins, oil drums and biscuit tins, were originally used...

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   What is a steel drum?

   • steel drum, tuned gong made from the unstoppered end and part of the wall of a metal shipping drum. The end surface is hammered concave, and several areas are outlined by acoustically important chiseled grooves. It is heated and tempered, and bosses, or domes, are hammered into the outlined areas.

   Steel drum | Caribbean, Calypso, Reggae | Britannica

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   What is a steel tongue drum?

   • A steel tongue drum, tank drum, or hank drum is a round steel slit/tongue drum in the idiophone family originally fashioned from a propane cylinder. A steel tongue drum can be made from an empty, often 20-lb (9-kg) propane tank. The tank is flipped over and the base is cut or knocked off.

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   Is a steel drum a membranophone?

   • Drum refers to the steel drum containers from which the pans are made; the steel drum is more correctly called a steel pan or pan as it falls into the idiophone family of instruments, and so is not a drum (which is a membranophone ). Some steelpans are made to play in the Pythagorean musical cycle of fourths and fifths.

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   How do you make a steel tongue drum?

   • A steel tongue drum can be made from an empty, often 20-lb (9-kg) propane tank. The tank is flipped over and the base is cut or knocked off. Seven to ten tongues are then cut radially into the bottom of the tank, forming the top of the instrument. A steel tongue drum can also be made from a new unused tank head.

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4. www.musicinst.org › news › steel-drum-storyThe Steel Drum Story | Music Institute Chicago

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   On an island off the coast of Venezuela, native Africans communicated using talking drums and participated in ceremonial drumming. Traditional drumming and the instruments used for it were taken away and banned, so uses for bamboo played in rhythmic fashion were developed.

5. artsandculture.google.com › story › the-origins-ofThe Origins of Steel Pan — Google Arts & Culture

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   The steel pan (also known as steel drums, or ‘pan’) was created in Trinidad and Tobago in the 1930s. It was established in contexts of Carnival resistance, its history being traced back to the...

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7. www.britannica.com › art › steel-drumSteel drum | Caribbean, Calypso, Reggae | Britannica

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   Steel drum, tuned gong made from the unstoppered end and part of the wall of a metal shipping drum. The end surface is hammered concave, and several areas are outlined by acoustically important chiseled grooves.