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Does the Steelband need an identifiable (popular) music genre?

Lately I've been thinking that one of the reasons that our beloved art form does not receive the popular recognition among the general public that it deserves, is because of the lack of an identifiable music genre associated with the instrument.

In

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CORRUPTION ...

Pan men, pay attention to what Govening Bodies do, and there's more "Extradition" to follow, for a Design Patent Willful Infringment, July 6th 2010 in the US, which violated a US Library of Congress Copyright, when U play with fire U WILL, GET BURN..

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WHY DO ALL THE STEEL BAND'S SOUND ALIKE ???

Is it because ALL the arranger's recycling each other's style ???

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In reference to the NOTICE OF STOLEN STEEL PANS

When "licening" commence, the tuner's Model and Manufacture's No # will be able to identify, the "Instrument's", in the event that it's lost, or stolen...

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Steel Band Music

Pan Times; Tin pans started this so-called steel band movement in 1935, and not 1939, there weren't no drums made from iron and carbon, oil were shipt in wooden barrels, lined with tar, therefore the pan's that was used was not steel, but instead a m

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Steel Band

Whom did Michel de Nostradame see in his "crystal ball"? in 1555 Michel be Nostradame's wrote over ((1) one thousand "Quatrain" but only (1) one hundred was ever published, what is a "Quatrain"? a "Quatrain" is a unit of (4) four line verse, or a (4)

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The Steel Pan Musical Instrument

The steel pan musical instrument, is an instrument like no other, it has a philosophy and idiom all it's own, it can take the place or substute any instrument in an orchestra or symphony, but the instrument's in said orchestras and symphony cannot su

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Do we judge Music more on Sight than Sound?

Do we Judge Music more on Sight than Sound? I say Yes, and we should do something about it, 

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TUNING & TUNERS

Of course I'm prejudice, but I have to say this, this year's 2015 panorama, apart from myself and Anthony Williams work, I've heard one of the best "ping pong / tenor pan" in "Phase II" in the past 25 years, I played "Malagenua, Poet & Peasant, Voice

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PLAGIARISM

NOAH; this IS, a clear case of Plagarism via Infringment, when U present the works, ideas, or words of another as your own, in plain talk it's stealing, and in this case it was also wilful, and malicious, where the penalty for knowing that someone el

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It's Broken Fix it...

Cecil Hinkson my good man, Carnival without "Pan / Steel Band" is "NOT" Carnival, with out our "bamboo tamboo" and "dus bin" band's parading the streets, Carnival would not have evolved, Carnival derived / obtained from our "Black African French and

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PANTRINBAGO telling U HOW TO PLAY PAN MUSIC

Pantrinbago telling panmen what and how to play their music, in the beginning, pan men choose, to play calypso tunes, giving it a "Panoramic" scope/wide and broadness, Pantrinbago has since narrowed said scope, so we must play recycled music, no no n

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TIME TO CALL THE ELECTION

My good man Luke Andre; I understand to well what U R saying, but there has to be a past, in order to have a future, is it not? and so far, the pan men of today DO NOT KNOW where they are going, or from" whence it com'et", all that TALK is just that,

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Carnival Parades

Mr. David V. Trotman; that photo was taken in the mid- fifties, and the band was "Tripoli" Steel band of St James...

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In ref; to the BONAPART BROS

Sherwin and Glenroy; let me shed a little light here, Pouchet and Holman souces are inaccurate, first thing things first, Belgrave Bonapart and Theo Stephens was in the five top player in the TASPO ensemble, the others were Dudley Smith, Patsy Haynes

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,The Judging Criteria

Mr Martin Maitland, R U educated on the Judging Criteria? if U R not, U sound a bit paranoid and insecure, is it that U R an "All Stars" fan?

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2015 Steel band Panorama

This years Panorama was the worst ever, especially where "Pablo" a Pantrinbago bully representative made a statement weeks prior to panorama that , their will be a new panorama champion 2015, which means Phase II will not win their 3 straight panoram

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The FACT on PAN / THE STEEL BAND

"PAN", In 1935, at the young of age 11 years old being born August 6th 1924, pan was created out of a need for "Spiritual en-lightenment", it was discovered that when you constantly strike / indent, ( to force inward so as to form a depression ), on

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Dissonance

Has pan lost's it's IDIOM?  because in this 2015 panorama, I have heard the worst " tone of pan's" in my entire life, it seem's as though pan has gone back to 1936 when "Carlton (sonny) Roach" discovered different tone's close to the rim of his Klim

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INFRINGMENT

Anyone using the 4ths & 5ths technology, which also happen's to be S.N.S.E's "spider web's", on their E-Pan, PHI-Pan, or PanKat instrumen's etc, without written authorization IS, an INFRINGMENT VIOLATION of said technology, and will be PROSECUTED, wi

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