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A couple years after Joel Smales heard Ithaca College's Steel Band,he bought a steel pan of his own to play along with Binghamton High School's Jazz Ensemble.
"Everybody loved it," said Smales, a music teacher at the school. "I got some old drums, and from there, it kind of blossomed and took off."
Soon, Smales secured a grant to purchase a few old steel pans for the school, and the Steel Drum Band was formed in 1999.
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