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Steelpan

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Steelpans (also known as steel drums or pans, and sometimes, collectively with other musicians, as a steel band or orchestra) is a musical instrument originating from Trinidad and Tobago. [1]

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Andy Akiho

Andy Akiho (2 February, 1979, Columbia, South Carolina) is an American musician and composer of contemporary classical music.

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Andy Narell

Andy Narell (born March 18, 1954) is a jazz steel drummer.

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Anthony Williams (musician)

Anthony "Tony" Williams (born 24 June 1931 in Port of Spain, Trinidad) is an inventor, pioneer and musician of the steel pan.

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Bamboo

The bamboos are evergreen perennial flowering plants in the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae.

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BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3 is a British radio station operated by the BBC.

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Bertie Marshall

Bertram Lloyd Marshall ORTT (6 February 1936 – 17 October 2012), known as Bertie Marshall, was a pioneer, musician and music instrument maker of the Steel Pan.

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Brazing

Brazing is a metal-joining process in which two or more metal items are joined together by melting and flowing a filler metal into the joint, the filler metal having a lower melting point than the adjoining metal.

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Calypso music

Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to mid-19th century and eventually spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles and Venezuela by the mid-20th century.

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Canboulay

Canboulay (from the French cannes brulées, meaning burnt cane) is a precursor to Trinidad and Tobago Carnival.

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Canboulay riots

The Canboulay riots were riots by the descendants of freed slaves on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago by the British police to crack down on aspects of the celebration of Carnival.

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Carnival

Carnival (see other spellings and names) is a Western Christian and Greek Orthodox festive season that occurs before the liturgical season of Lent.

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Carrie Anne

"Carrie Anne" is a song written by Allan Clarke, Graham Nash, and Tony Hicks and released by British pop rock group The Hollies.

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Chemical substance

A chemical substance, also known as a pure substance, is a form of matter that consists of molecules of the same composition and structure.

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Chromatic scale

The chromatic scale is a musical scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone above or below its adjacent pitches.

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Chrome plating

Chrome plating (less commonly chromium plating), often referred to simply as chrome, is a technique of electroplating a thin layer of chromium onto a metal object.

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Circle of fifths

In music theory, the circle of fifths (or circle of fourths) is the relationship among the 12 tones of the chromatic scale, their corresponding key signatures, and the associated major and minor keys.

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Close (Nick Jonas song)

"Close" is a song recorded by American singer Nick Jonas from his third studio album, Last Year Was Complicated.

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Daphne Oram

Daphne Oram (31 December 1925 – 5 January 2003) was a British composer and electronic musician.

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Dave Samuels

Dave Samuels (born October 9, 1948) is an American vibraphonist and marimba player who spent many years with the contemporary jazz group Spyro Gyra.

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Diatonic and chromatic

Diatonic (διατονική) and chromatic (χρωματική) are terms in music theory that are most often used to characterize scales, and are also applied to musical instruments, intervals, chords, notes, musical styles, and kinds of harmony.

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Dominica

Dominica (Island Carib), officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island republic in the West Indies.

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Drum (container)

A drum is a cylindrical container used for shipping bulk cargo.

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Electronic tuner

In music, an electronic tuner is a device that detects and displays the pitch of musical notes played on a musical instrument.

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Ellie Mannette

Elliot "Ellie" Mannette (born 5 November 1927) is a Trinidadian musical instrument maker and Steel Pan musician, also known as "father of the modern steel pan instrument".

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Embossing (manufacturing)

Sheet metal embossing is a stamping process for producing raised or sunken designs or relief in sheet metal.

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Esso Trinidad Steel Band

The Esso Trinidad Steel Band was a steel band from Trinidad, active from 1942 to 1976.

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F (musical note)

F is a musical note, the fourth above C. It is also known as fa in fixed-do solfège.

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Frying pan

A frying pan, frypan, or skillet is a flat-bottomed pan used for frying, searing, and browning foods.

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G (musical note)

Sol, so, or G is the fifth note of the fixed-do solfège starting on C. As such it is the dominant, a perfect fifth above C or perfect fourth below C. When calculated in equal temperament with a reference of A above middle C as 440 Hz, the frequency of middle G (G4) note is approximately 391.995 Hz.

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Grenada

Grenada is a sovereign state in the southeastern Caribbean Sea consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines island chain.

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Hang (instrument)

The Hang (plural form: Hanghang) is a musical instrument in the idiophone class created by Felix Rohner and Sabina Schärer in Bern, Switzerland.

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Harry Belafonte

Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and social activist.

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History of Martinique

This is a page on the history of the island of Martinique.

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House of Flowers (musical)

House of Flowers is a musical by Harold Arlen (music and lyrics) and Truman Capote (lyrics and book), based on his own short story, first published in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958).

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Idiophone

An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the instrument as a whole vibrating—without the use of strings or membranes.

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Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion) is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin jazz.

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Jimmy Buffett

James William Buffett (born December 25, 1946) is an American musician, songwriter, author, actor, and businessman.

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Jonathan Scales

Jonathan Scales (born September 14, 1984) is an American steel pannist and composer.

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Lathe

A lathe is a tool that rotates the workpiece about an axis of rotation to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, deformation, facing, and turning, with tools that are applied to the workpiece to create an object with symmetry about that axis.

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Laventille

Laventille is a ward of Trinidad and Tobago.

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Liberace

Władziu Valentino Liberace (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987), known mononymously as Liberace, was an American pianist, singer, and actor.

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Loggins and Messina

Loggins and Messina is an American rock-pop duo consisting of Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina, who achieved their success in the early to mid-1970s.

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Lord Kitchener (calypsonian)

Aldwin Roberts (18 April 1922 – 11 February 2000), better known by the stage name Lord Kitchener (or "Kitch"), was an internationally known Trinidadian calypsonian.

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Martinique

Martinique is an insular region of France located in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of and a population of 385,551 inhabitants as of January 2013.

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Membranophone

A membranophone is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by way of a vibrating stretched membrane.

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Morning Dance

Morning Dance is the second album by the jazz fusion group Spyro Gyra.

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Musical instrument

A musical instrument is an instrument created or adapted to make musical sounds.

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Nick Jonas

Nicholas Jerry Jonas (born September 16, 1992) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer.

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Nitriding

Nitriding is a heat treating process that diffuses nitrogen into the surface of a metal to create a case-hardened surface.

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Othello Molineaux

Othello Molineaux is a jazz steelpan player who spent much of his early career backing bass guitarist Jaco Pastorius.

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Overtone

An overtone is any frequency greater than the fundamental frequency of a sound.

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Panorama (music competition)

Panorama is an annual music competition of steelbands from Trinidad and Tobago.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.

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Pitch (music)

Pitch is a perceptual property of sounds that allows their ordering on a frequency-related scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies.

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Port of Spain

Port of Spain (also spelled Port-of-Spain) is the capital city of Trinidad and Tobago and the country's third-largest city, after Chaguanas and San Fernando.

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Powder coating

Powder coating is a type of coating that is applied as a free-flowing, dry powder.

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Pythagorean interval

In musical tuning theory, a Pythagorean interval is a musical interval with frequency ratio equal to a power of two divided by a power of three, or vice versa.

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Rudolph Charles

Rudolph Charles (1 October 1938 – 29 March 1985) was a musician and instrument maker of the Steelpan, but most notably, he was a pioneer and leader of the steelband movement in Trinidad and Tobago.

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Russell Henderson

Russell Audley Ferdinand "Russ" Henderson MBE (7 January 1924 – 18 August 2015) was a jazz musician on the piano and the steelpan.

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Saab Group

Saab Group (originally Svenska Aeroplan AB, later SAAB and Saab AB) is a Swedish aerospace and defence company, founded in 1937.

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Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia (Sainte-Lucie) is a sovereign island country in the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean.

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a sovereign state in the Lesser Antilles island arc, in the southern portion of the Windward Islands, which lies in the West Indies at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean.

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Sittin' In (Loggins and Messina album)

Sittin' In is the first album by singer-songwriters Loggins and Messina, released in 1971.

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Society for Ethnomusicology

The Society for Ethnomusicology is, with the International Council for Traditional Music and the, one of three major international associations for ethnomusicology.

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Spyro Gyra

Spyro Gyra is an American jazz fusion band that was formed in Buffalo, New York in 1974.

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Stick-fighting

Stick-fighting, stickfighting, or stick fighting is a variety of martial arts which use simple long slender, blunt, hand-held, generally wooden 'sticks' for fighting; such as a staff, cane, walking stick, baton or similar.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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Tamboo bamboo

Tamboo Bamboo is a Caribbean percussion instrument (idiophone) created in the Caribbean, and is a notable precursor to the creation of steelpan.

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TASPO (Steelband)

The Trinidad All-Steel Percussion Orchestra (TASPO) was formed to participate in the Festival of Britain in 1951.

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Tessitura

In music, tessitura (pl. tessiture, "texture") is the most esthetically acceptable and comfortable vocal range for a given singer or, less frequently, musical instrument; the range in which a given type of voice presents its best-sounding (or characteristic) timbre.

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The Hollies

The Hollies are a British pop/rock group best known for their pioneering and distinctive three-part vocal harmony style.

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Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is a twin island sovereign state that is the southernmost nation of the West Indies in the Caribbean.

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United States Navy

The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.

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Vivian Bonnell

Vivian Bonnell (born Enid Mosier, May 23, 1924 – November 18, 2003), was an actress and calypso singer, originally from Antigua, British West Indies.

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Waste container

A waste container is a container for temporarily storing waste, and is usually made out of metal or plastic.

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Winston Simon

Winston "Spree" Simon (1930 – 18 April 1976) was a Trinidadian inventor, pioneer and musician of the steelpan.

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World's fair

A world's fair, world fair, world expo, universal exposition, or international exposition (sometimes expo or Expo for short) is a large international exhibition designed to showcase achievements of nations.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steelpan

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