Steel Band in Trinidad

Between 1838 and 1883, the beating of fur drums was an integral p artwork of bazaar celebrations. When a ban on all drum-beating was imposed in 1884, Carnival celebrants had to look for an alternative to the skin drum. They turned to bamboo subsequently they discoered that dried bamboo of various diameters produced different punishings, when cut to differing lengths and smitten with wooden sticks. Bands that used bamboo to produce music were called Tamboo Bamboo bands and the first tale of such a band taking part in Carnival was in 1891. With the passage of time, Tamboo Bamboo bands were integrated into Carnival and flourished until the 1930s.
With an vivid sense of rhythm and a burning desire to pull out this feeling by beating on something other than bamboo and skin drums during Carnival, some poor, Black, skillful Trinidadians turned to metal containers for music in the 1930s. Although there are varying opinions as to when the first sound from beating on metal cans was heard, there is strong present that such a sound occurred in 1935 when the Gonzales (Port-of-Spain) Tamboo Bamboo Band spud the road during Carnival with a bass can.



As invent of this innovation spread, aspiring metal can players all over Trinidad began crafting the bottoms of any metal containers (pans) that they could put their hands on, by buffeting and partitioning the flat ends with hammers and marque punches to create different sounds. This art would later come to be know as tune up and the players were called panmen. This drum, originally used to store petroleum, evolved into the steel pan by making cross-sections cut into the 55-gallon metal container. Through further experimentation, percussive sounds of various pitches were produced by indenting and tempering the concave metal surface. The steel drum therefore was used in the creation of what is known today as the steel pan, and although there have been several(prenominal) competing claims to its invention, it is generally accepted that the steel pan was first...If you want to jerk off a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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