Steel Pans – Steel Drums

Steel Pans - Steel Drums

There is a long history about steel pans/steel drums

Since 1800s, the inhabitants of Trinidad had been participating in a street carnival brought to the Caribbean island by the French. When the freed slaves (slavery was abolished in the West Indies in 1834) joined in the festivities, they could not afford the conventional instruments, so they used African drums, the instruments of their ancestors, then created percussion bands made up of bamboo joints cut from the bamboo plant …..

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Steps Making Traditional Steel Pans (Steel Drums)
STEP 1 – SINKING
STEP 2 – MARKING
STEP 3 – COUNTER-SINKING
STEP 4 – GROOVING
STEP 5 – SETTING/BACKING
STEP 6 – CUTTING
STEP 7 – BURNING
STEP 8 – TUNING
STEP 9 – APPLYING A PROTECTIVE FINISH
STEP 10 – FINE TUNING AND BLENDING