Steelpan / steel drums
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Steelpan (also known as steeldrums or pans, and sometimes collectively with the musicians as a steelband) is a musical instrument and a form of music originating in Trinidad and Tobago.
The pan is a pitched percussion instrument, tuned chromatically (although some toy or novelty steelpans are tuned diatonically), made from a 55 gallon drum of the type that stores oil. In fact, drum refers to the steel drum containers from which the pans are made; the steel drum is correctly called a steelpan or pan as it falls into the Idiophone family of instruments, and is not technically regarded as a drum or Membranophone.
Learn more about the steel drum "Orchestral Family"
The pan family There are 10 instruments in the pan family:
| A tenor pan from Tobago |
steel instrument suppliers
See a steel pan being made, find one to buy at SteelDrums