Where was the steelpan/steeldrum created and by whom?
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There is controversy concerning the steelpan's origins. Although it is reported that Winston "Spree" Simon took an old biscuit tin, and beat it with a corn cob to form a steelpan, the history of the evolution and development of the steelpan is more complex and nuanced than that. While Simon may have been the first to use biscuit tins, it quickly turned to ash cans and the steel drums made unintentionally available by the United States. Bunches of young African men can be credited with contributing to the steel pan. Only having scraps as their primary resources they used what they had to preserve cultural aspects of their culture in the space of the Caribbean. Clearly being influenced by the mixture of those on the islands along with the desire for African drums, steel pan was formed. The development of the pan took place largely during WWII, the first record of a pan band in the press being in a report of the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival in the Trinidad Guardian dated Tuesday, February 6, 1940.\n\n \nThe BP Renegades Steel OrchestraOne of the oldest steelbands in the world is The Neal & Massy Trinidad All-Stars which celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2005.\n\nEarly bands were essentially rhythm bands. However during the 1940s discarded 55-gallon steel oil drums became the preferred type of pan and, perhaps noticing that constant drumming changed the tone of the pans, techniques were developed to tune them to enable melodies to be played. During WWII, tamboo bamboo bands, who usually performed during Trinidad's Carnival began using steel drums discarded by the US military (see Destroyers for Bases Agreement) to make advanced versions of their instruments. Ellie Mannette is credited as the first person to use an oil drum in 1946. By the late 1940s the music had spread to neighbouring islands.\n\nIn 1951 the Trinidad All Steel Percussion Orchestra (TASPO) took the music to the Festival of Britain in the United Kingdom - pan music still features in the annual Notting Hill Carnival.\n\nIn 1957, Rear Admiral Daniel V. Gallery formed what became the US Navy Steel Band, which toured the world as ambassadors for the U.S. Navy until 1999.\n\nDuring the 1960s the tuner Anthony Williams developed a pan - the fourths and fifths - that has since become the standard design used today.\n\nTwo Americans, George Whitmyre and Harvey J. Price, have secured a US patent for "the process of formation of a Caribbean steelpan using a hydroforming press". This patent is being challenged by the Trinidad and Tobago Legal Affairs Ministry, since many Trinbagonian drum makers have used similar methods for years.\n\nSteelbands in the early years were looked down upon by upper class society, and the panplayers were seen as undesireables. This view has completely reversed to the point where there are many more church steelbands than conventional bands
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Fats Waller.  He was also the composer.
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Lewis Waterman in 1884\nhttp://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa100897.htm
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The only thing I can think of is the word "xylophone."  A xylophone is the cousin to Marimbas which originated in Zimbabwe (which is part of Africa)
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Cooking food with microwaves was discovered by Percy Spencer while building magnetrons for radar sets at Raytheon. He was working on an active radar set when he noticed a strange sensation, and saw that a chocolate bar he had in his pocket had melted.\n\nIt was patented in 1946
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It was made for the men to play something indoors during the winter at a local YMCA by James Naismith in Springfield, MA in 1891.\n\nGood luck.
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Steel = Warships from 1890 to the present (United States Naval History).  Iron = American and Confederate armoured warships (ironclads)  See USS Monitors and CSS Merrimack(aslo known as CSS Virginia)\n\nBrass = Bullets for muskets, rifles, pistols, cannons, etc.\nBrass = Musical Instruments such as trumpets.
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Howdy,\n  1800's . If you will listen to the song "DIXIE" all the way through, You will here this is an old Irish song that the South adopted. In this song, on the second and third verse, Jim was a deciever, and His gal had a meat cleaver.
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the dining fork was invented in Italy in the sixteenth century\n\n*hugs* ~:)
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Barnicles is awesome, but yeah who invented it, good question, never thought of that before...\n\nWho's Imao Christa?
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encyclopedia britannica
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I believe it might have been Gustave Eiffel.  He's most famous for the Eiffel Tower, but he used steel frames in buildings before that.  It's interesting that he sometimes put the steel frame on the outside of the structure, rather than the inside.  A good example of this is the Nestlé chocolate factory in Noisiel, France
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Of course the best web site must contain nothing but Drum'n'Bass. So, \n\nhttp://www.breakbeat.co.uk/
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Steel and Iron (American Made)\nHere is Wikipedia it has all the info you need. \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Building
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In mind? The internet\nIn spirit? 1989 (listening to the Moog Cookbook, music sounds like it was made on a load of C64s and Atari STs)\nIn body? Sutton Coldfield, North Birmingham, UK... in a few hours, a small village in Leicestershire called South Kilworth. Being dragged to a barn dance. Argh. :-)
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i love it, i'd suggest some sort of steel-drum thing, tho i dont know any names of songs, sorry!
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the drum is made of wood\nthe rim either metal or plastic\nthen theres a head which is made out of like plastic or fiberglass head made be evans\nthats pretty much the whole drum