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Funeral arrangements for pan tuner Patrick Worrell aka "Bele"
From Trevor Emanuel Cooper:
"This serves to inform all members of our Pan community that Patrick Worrell aka "Bele" died on Wednesday 13th November 2019. His funeral will held on Wednesday 20th November at the Belgrove's funeral establishment in the
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Meet Robert Issa - With His Dream for Steelband In Tanzania - UpClose!
Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania - Presently, he is a mostly self-motivated, self-taught, self -financed - panist, arranger, teacher, promoter, recruiter and tuner who is single-handedly leading the charge to bring Pan and the steelband to Tanzania in a very
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Happy Birthday to master tuner Ellie Mannette
When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings, today, November 5 - to panist, tuner and inventor Ellie Mannette.
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Happy Birthday to Master Tuner Bertram “Birch” Kelman - September 9
When Steel Talks extends Birthday Greetings to master Pan Tuner extraordinaire - the great Bertram “Birch” Kelman.
More on this iconic master craftsman...
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Instruments tuned up by their creator Veron Henry, Urban Steel is set to sway Rochester. Next stop, Antigua?
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Steelband class with Veron Henry (at front, in navy blue)
Below: Principal Armando Ramirez (left) with Veron Henry
Rochester New York, USA - Last month James Monroe High School welcomed a very special guest indee
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Bertie Marshall Blvd unveiled
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Late steelpan pioneer and innovator Bertram “Bertie” Marshall received a great posthumous honour yesterday when the Old St Joseph Road in Success Village, Laventille was renamed “Bertie Marshall
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Reboot - Meet Andy Neils - Outstanding Steelpan Tuner - UpClose!
An exclusive When Steel Talks interview with Andy Neils - steelpan tuner and former ace steelpan player for the legendary Renegades Steel Orchestra
Global - Andy “Max” Neils is an accomplished and outstanding steelpan tuner whose talents are sought
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Legendary Steelpan innovator, builder and tuner Bertie Marshall has passed
When Steel Talks extends sincere condolences to the Family, friends, colleagues and greater steelband fraternity, on the October 17, 2012 passing of Bertie Marshall of Trinidad and Tobago - legendary Steelpan innovator, builder and tuner.
Noted his
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Steelpan tuner Clement Franklin - A Golden Ear Tends to Brooklyn’s Steel Drums for West Indian Day
DNAInfo.com
Brooklyn, New York, USA - The steel drums may have been born in Trinidad — but for this island-born tinkerer, it took a move to Brooklyn to find the pan's perfect pitch.
Clement Franklin, 54, of Canarsie, began banging out steel drums i
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Master Tuner Wallace Austin
Master Tuner Wallace Austin
Wallace Austin at Basement Recordings/ WST Studios
Wallace Austin is considered as one of the finest steelpan tuners ever. Wallace Austin was part of the legendary team of tuners (Rudolph Charles, Lincoln Noel, James 'Bas
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BIRCH KELMAN SPEAKS
The following interview was published in the newspaper of the Committee for Labour Solidarity: HOLD THE FORT ((Vol. 3 no. 4 June 1985). This website thinks the interview is worth reproducing for its historical and cultural value.
This interview may q
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Revisited -- The Art of [Pan] Tuning is Alive with Andy ‘Mad Max’ Neils In the Spotlight
The Art of [Pan] Tuning is Alive
with Andy ‘Mad Max’ Neils
In the Spotlight
Revisited - Originally published - 10.21.06
Trinidad - One of the pan tuning greats Lincoln 'Delgado' Noel has recently passed, but the art of tuning the steelpan instrum
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Revisited -- Master Tuner Bertram "Birch" Kelman
Bertram "Birch" Kelman
Simply one of the finest steelpan tuners ever.
Global - In light of the recent miscue as reported by WST member Ama Belfon in her post (How do we put a price on the contributions Pan Tuners have made to our culture), WST felt
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WST Special - Bertie Marshall - The Steel Pan Visionary - The Film - Revisted
Bertie Marshall - The Steel Pan Visionary - The Film
Global - Steelpan pioneer and visionary Bertie Marshall is the subject of this film production by film maker, producer, director, pan man and steelpan historian Dalton Narine. This is a fifty-minute
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