So you and me are square on both ends!!! And you could make your own measurements of your platform.
Claude
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So you and me are square on both ends!!! And you could make your own measurements of your platform.
Claude
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Well, my ears are not as PAN SOPHISTICATED as the author's who spent his whole life in PAN YARDS. But I LOVE the sight and the sound of PAN ON TRUCKS!!!
I'm still wondering where you grew up Claude :).
There is an entirely different vibration from a steelband on the ground to one on a truck.
That's why the best part of panorama for most people is on the drag , where you can physically absorb the sound in your entire body.
The vibration from a steelband on the ground is almost organic , while on trucks it is hollow and distant.
That was also why we enjoyed pushing pans as kids.
Or , should we assume you are being ironic ?
No wonder you think pushing pans was hard labor , when we actually enjoyed doing it !
An interesting passage from this book!!!
"The boycott year,1979, Pamberi was my neighborhood band. I was living on Santa Cruz Old Road ... that year Pamberi went straight down the Old Road, through the Croissee, to a competition site, without playing a note ... I believe that the 1979 boycott did more harm to them than good. A number of people who supported pan turned away. Pan pushers were a dime a dozen before. Everybody wanted to help but after 1979, bands had to engage vehicles to pull them along. It took place slowly and gradually.
This new arrangement, with the pans high in the air has affected the sound of the bands on the road.To me, when the pans, especially the background pans are closer to the ground there is more resonance. The tenors sound screechy and you hear a lot of the stick with them on top of a truck or high rack. Instead of improving we are regressing. Something has to be done to improve the way bands sound in this type of setting."