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...
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handpan, fitting into the idiophone class and based on the Trinidad & Tobago steelpan instrument. It was created by Felix Rohner and Sabina Schärer in Bern,...
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a group of musical instruments that are classified as a subset of the steelpan. Several handpan makers and brands have emerged in recent years, resulting...
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Orchestra bells Quadrangularis Reversum Ratchet Singing bowls Slit drum Steelpan Suspended cymbal Temple blocks Thumb piano (or Kalimba) Triangle Txalaparta...
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Music of Bermuda (section Steelpan)
hits in the US and the UK. The island's musical traditions also include steelpan, calypso, choral music, as well as an array of bagpipe music played by...
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Columbus's sailing ships from the coat of arms and replace them with the steelpan drum, the national musical instrument, as part of efforts to remove "colonial...
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multiple festivals on Trinidad, featuring the music of the Caribbean and the steelpan (which originated on Trinidad and is the country's national instrument);...
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October 1952) is a Japanese musician, composer, record producer, writer, and steelpan player based in Tokyo. In Japan during the 1980s and 1990s, he pioneered...
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Music of Antigua and Barbuda (section Steelpan)
and Barbudan folk music became more dominated by Trinidadian calypso and steelpan. Most forms of modern Antiguan and Barbudan music are not indigenous to...
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Pete Seeger (section Interest in steelpan)
Toshi, traveled to Port of Spain, Trinidad, to seek out information on the steelpan, sometimes called a steel drum, or "ping-pong". The two searched out a...
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