A look at the steel drum's infiltration into hip-hop production. The island vibes you associate with the instrument’s ethereal, hollow tones aren’t by mistake. Its roots can be traced back to late ...

King Charles tried his hand as a steel drum player during a reception for the Commonwealth diaspora at St James's Palace in ...

The steel drum, also called the steel pan or just pan, is surely one of the most unusual and versatile musical instruments in the world. The clangy sound of a steel band performing during carnival in ...

University of Minnesota senior Bradford Olson from Minnetonka plays bass pans or steel drums for the U's "Panic" steel band, Dec. 9, 2014. Walk the halls at the University of Minnesota School of Music ...

You wouldn’t think that a type of steel drum was invented in Michigan, of all places. But it was. As the inventor of the “hank drum” (a combination of the words “hang” and “tank”), Havlena invented ...

I’m not the kind of person who enjoys covers of video game songs. The Sonic The Hedgehog theme is just fine the way it is, thank you. But now I have encountered Steeldrumband’s reconfigurations of ...

A [Hank Drum], as explained here, is a steel drum-type instrument made out of a propane tank. The name comes from the [Hang] or [Hang Drum] which is significantly more expensive than that $40 or so an ...

Ellie Mannette, the father of the modern steel drum, has died at 90. While most people only hear a racket if you bang on a metal trash can, Mannette heard so much more. ELLIE MANNETTE: I listened to ...