What are steel drums?

often made of 55-galon oil drums, steel drums are trinidad drums that were developed in the 30s to 40s of the 20th century. Technically the tool is called a steel pan or steel or just a pelvis; The steel drum is the material from which the tool is made. However, the tool is often referred to as a steel drum. Originally they were used at the carnival celebrations that take place on Tuesday before the Lent start.

The set of steel drums is called a steel belt. The file may also include rhythmic tools such as drum kit, congas and other drums, some standards and some & Emdash; Like the iron, made of brake drums - also recycled. In general, idiohones can play intervening, scratching, twitching, friction or blowing. In the case of steel drums, steel drums are affected by sticks with rubber, the bottom of the oil drums are formed into a bowl and then tuned. Each drum has a number of surfaces in the pan that differs in the pitch. TopThe lost drum, tenor, has a series of about two and a half octaves. Conventional tuning is chromatic.

Winston "Spree" Simon, who played with John John Steel Band, is considered the first pelvis manufacturer. Although the typical repertoire of steel drums includes Calypsos and other Latin American forms, Simon has developed the organization of "Ave Maria" and "God to save the king" for steel drums.

steel drums are still popular in Trinidad and Tobag, where they are a national tool. The attention, which is still associated with the carnival, turned to the Trinidad and Tobago National Panorama, in which the steel belts compete with each other for prizes, while the competition culminates on Saturday before the carnival. The maximum Number players in the biggest category of the band are 120 players.

In the Panorama competition, steel drums are assessed in four categories: music arrangement, general performance, tone and rhythm, with 40 possible points in each of the first two categoriesí and 10 possible points in the last two categories. The panorama began in 1962, immediately after the independence of Trinidad and Tobago on Britain. Since then, steel drums have spread over the Caribbean and have even become popular in communities around the world, even those without the Caribbean population.