Archive of International News Items

Jun 15, 2004
US Patent 6750386
Cycle of fifths steel pan
Inventor Trevor King (Jamaica, NY), filed on 08/26/2002
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Mar 7, 2004
Heavy Metal

In Trinidad, the steel drum was created through a curious twist of fate. For the island's pan men who have spent a lifetime playing it, there has never been a more note-worthy accident.

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Jan 4, 2004
Gary in Trinidad
Gary Gibson's online photo journal while he was in Trinidad, playing with the champion steel drum orchestra EXODUS in the 2004 Panorama National steelband competition.

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Sep 22, 2003
Steelbands in Schools
The Instructor Dependency Model vs. The Teacher Transferency Model
Paper by Lionel McCalman
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May 16, 2003
What a Steel
USA - What do two guys from Delaware (George Whitmyre, Harvey Price), a lady from Germany (Judith Spoo) and the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago all have in common? Steel pans, aka steel drums. Two inventors with University of Delaware ties have found a way to mass-produce the Caribbean's most unique musical instrument, the steel drum.

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Mar 24, 2003
UD Pair Patent Steel Pan Process
USA - When Harvey Price and George Whitmyre recognized that there is great demand for steel pans--also known as Caribbean steel drums--they took a proactive approach to solving the problem by setting out to discover a new process for making them. Whitmyre, laboratory manager in the Department of Chemical Engineering, said it was their lack of knowledge about how steel pans are made that actually helped them to discover a new way of making them. The result? Price, assistant professor of music, and Whitmyre have developed the first successful machine process that allows steel pans to be made entirely of stainless steel.
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Nov 3, 2002
Unite for the common pan
T&T - Every stage of pan research and development requires close collaboration between tuners, scientists and scholars attached to other disciplines. In the many instances where the language of any one group is alien to another, the process is slowed. It was expressed as anxiety by veteran pannists at last months International Conference on the Science and Technology of the Steelpan.
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Nov 1, 2002
Miking solo instruments
T&T - There are those who prefer electronic pick-up systems of a particular design when it comes time to amplify a lead pan with microphones that collect ambient noise - using science without any investigation of precisely how it works. More often than not, the microphone favours certain frequency ranges at the expense of others, dependent on its positioning in relation to the instrument. Seldom are errors corrected from the engineering console during performance, for fear that the fixing of one problem might cause another and worsen the overall sound.
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Oct 26, 2002
US Patent 5973247
Portable steel drums and carrier
Issued by Matthews Wheeler, Seneca SC
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Oct 18, 2002
International Conference on the Science and Technology of the Steelpan

T&T - Sticks in focus at pan talks; Panch plays sixth at tonight's semis; Foreign bands cry foul

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