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A LITTLE BIT OF FORSYTH FROM THE LATE FITZGERALD GERRY JEMMOTT FORMER MUSICAL DIRECTOR OF TRINIDAD ALL STARS

When Neville Jules left Trinidad for the USA in early seventies, Rudy Wells took over arranging the Panorama Tunes for All Stars, In the late seventies After Rudy Wells was unavailable All stars used four Members(Anthony Guy, Anthony Guerra, Bunny We

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PLAGIARISM

Can U imagine "anyone" receiving $34.5 million US dollars circa 2005, from the then ROTT Government, to research and create a new family of pans, already researched and created, Design Patent and Trademark, with Moral Rights where Copyright is automa

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THANKS NEW VISIONARIES.....

I  don't know the status of the New Visionaries presently but I would to commend them for their effort in trying to oppose the executive of the Pan Trinbago, they did an excellent job with the resources they had.

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PAVING D WAY WITHOUT ST JAMES TRIPOLIANS THE FIRST AND ONLY PAN ROUND D NECK STEEL BAND TO ENTER 1973 PANORAMA SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE CONVENTIONAL STEEL BANDS

In 1973 St James Tripolians entered the Panorama contest as the only Pan round d neck steel band to play along side the conventional steel band for a place in the semis finals, they pioneered the Pan round d neck steel bands to have their own categor

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Looking for Hylanders Original Lp

Hi All:

The family of the late Bertie Marshall is looking for original LPs of Hylanders Steelband recordings. Unfortunately the ones in our possession were broken during a house move. We would prefer Lps in original jackets in playable condition and

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CULTURAL BANDIT !!!

Is Pan Trinbago a CULTURAL BANDIT ???

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PAN / STEEL BAND'S, TIME TO "REVOLT" ...

This will be necessary to facilitate the further "Evolution," a process of change in the particular direction, of the instrument, back to it's rightful state of ORIGIN, without further ABUSE, by a FASCIST REGIME that pigeon hold the development of th

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Y is "PAN" and Pan men/people been ABUSED ???

Is it because were to TALENTED / CREATIVE, or DUMB ???

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Who would you Vote as the Best Steel Band in the 20th Century, #1 and #2

 My Vote as the Best Steel Band in the 20th Century, #1 and #2 would be, #1 Panam North Stars, #2 Desperadoes.

   

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"PAN TUNER'S" WHAT R U DOING, has pan gone backward ???????

It's HIGH TIME THAT I get on the "Pan Tuners BUTT... Since the single pan band HAD RESURFACED in the 1980s, the TONE of pan and PLAYING has taken a 80% turn backward, as pan is no longer played, but instead BEATEN, AGAIN I've heard, and still continu

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IS "PAN" A DANCE & BEATING CONTEST AMONG OTHER THING'S ???

Pan is and instrument created out of the need for "Spiritual Enlightenment", player's spend most of there time DANCING behind the instrument, other than playing the instrument the way it is to be played, pan is not a CIRCUS of MOCKERY, or a DANCE CLA

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PAN & PANORAMA A 3 RING CIRCUS...

With Tuners, Arrangers, Players the ring's in the Circus, and Pan Trinbago the Ring Master, consistently smiling pan people $$$$$$, while they/pan people live in poverty and squalor to later die like dog's...

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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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