pelham goddard posted a status
"I would like to know what pan tuners and arrangers think about pan sampling because there is always think it's not real"
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I think that many of us will stay far away from pan sampling but there is a big B U T I am living over seas for many years now. it was hard to get steel band instruments and to supplement the music we had to used SAMPLINGS. It is technology we would not be able to avoid. Fortunately we now have a resident pan tuner from Trinidad and we will be having our first steel band Festival in April 2013 which is about seven steel bands. Before I was able to have one tenor pan, and a Double-Second pan and a Dup-Doup to play as a steel drum band. Does it make SENSE?
There is no way to get away from this sampling,once there is an instrument and it is recorded it will be sampled..I think we should take the lead and the best tunners get involved and make sure what is being sampled is the best tones of the instrument,what we had in the Dx 7 some pans sound way better than that now.......
Sampling is an accepted part of the music industry , I don`t think that the pan should be treated any different from any other instrument, in fact the pan is regularly sampled in the pop music industry. What is important is that any music sampled should be cleared through the proper organisation and any royalties due is paid.
Fort some time now, we've heard some progressive exponents of pan call for digitizing the tones of the Master Tuners (e.g. Herman "Guppy" Brown, Roland Harrigan to name but a few) to benefit them form licensing royalties and posterity, now before they pass on... This will not replace the traditional instrument, just enhance the ability of future tuners lending an ear to the sound of well-tuned instruments and also for incorporation (by licensing agreement) to the electronic versions...
David Gettes has said it all in a nutshell.I will add that it happens in a "backstabbing" sort of way with the intention to undercut the present tuner(s) of the group.
Its already happening, for better or worse, with differing degress of sound quality.