At some point in the 1960s, steel drum (a.k.a. pan) music became the Caribbean equivalent ... Bacao's approach is a technological inversion, replacing beat boxes with a drum kit and letting ...

They’re also very, very good at playing video game music on steel drums. The arrangements for the instruments by Francis Mundangepfupfu really are amazing. I mean, watch and listen to this ...

director of Bethune-Cookman College’s Steel Drum Orchestra, warns those not familiar with the instrument: If you aren’t careful, the music can hypnotize you. “I’d never heard anything like ...

Some more complicated music boxes even contained a small drum or little bells ... years of tinkering with gears and bells and pins and steel combs. The trusty "Engineer Guy" Bill Hammack explains ...

used trash cans and buckets to make music for carnival and other festive events. During colonial times, the British banned these early percussion versions. Ellie Mannette creating a steel drum in 2016 ...