The Steel Drums Music


When it comes to music,every one will try out rhythm on empty steel drums ,wooden furnitures or steel dishes.But actually there is a musical instrument called steel drum,which is famous in the Caribbean regions.So let's peep into the sound of steel in the musical band industry,how it's increase the demand for steel making companies.

Origin and Growth 

Steel drum originated in the late 1930s on the island of Trinidad and was played as part of a steel band, a percussion ensemble contrived by lower-class rebellious teens.When you think of the steel drum, you might picture yourself relaxing on a tropical vacation. But the steel drum was born out of poverty and a local ban on drums.

 

 

Steel Drum Features


The steel drum is a tuned idiophone traditionally made from an oil drum, but today is made of high-quality steel. To make a steel drum, or a pan, the bottom of an oil drum is first pounded into a bowl, then shaped and tuned with hammers to form distinct resonating surfaces.While the first steel bands included instruments such as soap boxes, biscuit tins, and dustbins, modern steel bands include vibraphones, cow bells, congas, bongos, triangles and other percussion instruments.

Drums are made in families: bass pans, rhythm pans, and tenor pans.Manufacturing steel drums is a highly specialized skill. Pans are not standardized, as competition between rival bands fostered innovation in tuning and design.Winston ‘Spree’ Simon of the John John steel band is credited with making the first pan. In 1946, his band performed Ave Maria and God Save the King for an audience that included the British Governor.Steelpan is the Trinidad and Tobago’s national instrument.

  

Steel Band

Steel bands are stylistically versatile, but the most common steel band conventions of melodic phrasing and rhythmic structure are related to Calypso music.The steel band developed directly out of bamboo stamping tube ensembles, which provided carnival music for the lower-class in Port of Spain after a British colonial law restricted the use of drums with skin heads.

“Band wars” between rival steel bands emerged in Trinidad, complete with street fighting. Membership in a band soon became interpreted as hooliganism signaling creole disdain for European norms.

When the steel band’s musical transformation was driven by competition between bands as well as by the efforts of progressive middle-class individuals to promote what they viewed as an indigenous art form unjustly maligned by colonial cultural standards.

Popularity of the steel band has grown. They are now plentiful in Caribbean diaspora communities as well as non-Caribbean communities all over the world. While Trinidad and Tobago continues to be the center, countries like Sweden, Switzerland, and Japan are now hubs of steel band activity.


Music of Steel


When many countries accompanied steel drums in their musical bands,many companies started to manufacture high-quality steel drums for the musical purpose. Structural steel manufacturers in UAE, experts suggests that steel is the only metal through which we can bridge gap between two lands and two minds either through hard metallic connection or through the rhythm of music.Any way don't discourage your kid who practice music on any waste bins,let them explore the creativity.Only lazy people blame their tools, good creative people innovate their empire out of the available resources.Be good as steel , adaptive to the environment than a complaining mud pot always break when any pressure affects  across its body.





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