THE PAN and steelbands have evolved greatly since its invention some time in the 1930s, and today its music is one of the sounds most identifiable with the Caribbean.
But as Martin Albino, Trinidad All Stars veteran, reminisced along with fellow veterans on Thursday at the 61st-anniversary celebration of the first bomb competition, he lamented one major thing that has not changed for the better – the sound of the pan.
“They all sound the same,” Albino said.
Albino told Newsday at the reunion, held at the All Stars panyard on George Street, Port of Spain, pan has grown since the early days when tuners and panmakers would experiment with the sounds of biscuit drums and oil drums. But with its evolution and tuners’ mastery of the art of harmonics, pans have lost their individuality and it has become difficult to differentiate between the sounds of different types of pan.
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