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STEEL DRUMS,
IN ZAMBIA
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1961.tb69722.x
Subject(s) - citation , computer science , information retrieval , world wide web , library science
STEEL DRUMS IN ZAMBIA During a recent visit to Zambia of one of the top Trinidadian Steel bands, the “Gay Desperadoes”, their tuner, Wallace Austin, made and tuned no less than 43 ‘pans’ from local oil drums, in the six pitches now current in Trinidad—tenor, double-tenor, alto, guitar, tenor-bass and bass. These pans were made for Zambian musicians among whom “an infectious desire spread to get some ‘pans’, and made their own music” (Horizon, Feb. 1969). The instrument is indeed infectious, and highly adaptable, although requiring dedicated hours of concentration to make and keep in tune; it will be interesting to see what can be made of the steel drum in Africa. * * * * *