1. The Steel Pan
... and Tobago, during the times of World War II. Its roots are from Africa. The British colonial authorities banned African drumming, the people made music from bamboos, which they thumped on the ground and then they created "Tamboo Bamboo Bands". Between the 1930's and 1945's, biscuit tin, hubcaps, and empty oil drums became a new sort of drum. With distinct notes hammered into the surface. Legend ... began using discarded fifty-five gallon oil drums, which were hammered, concave, trimmed, and heated to make the material more durable to retain notes in tune, and then it was hammered from ...
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