Mention steel drums, and most conjure up an image of a ... and the result is a wide range of sound – from tenor to bass, from alto to soprano. It is a fairly easy instrument to learn to play, ...

Musical steel drums, also called pans, are fashioned from industrial barrels of the type used for storing crude oil or hazardous waste. Pans come in a variety of different voices—bass ...

So the next week we called Carl Chase and ordered some drums to compliment the ones that Bob had ordered. These are the big tenor basses. Six months later we took possession of this entire steel ...

The band, now known as The Binghamton High School Juice Blenders Steel Drum Band, currently has about ... who plays the tenor/lead pan in the group. "It's sort of like a chamber group in that ...

People from St Vincent and Grenada formed the first Reading steel band called Hurricane Force in the 1960s. This pan was skilfully hammered and tuned from an oil drum by Theo Stevens. Theo lived ...