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history of the steelpa,

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BEDE LOPEZ replied to Pan Times's discussion Trinidad Carnival 2022 - Schedule of Events - HOAX
"i am mad, if i didi not call family in tnt i would believe,  sad,"
Jan 28, 2022
BEDE LOPEZ left a comment for Claude Gonzales
"Claude you are a very good AUTHOR,   NICE SEEEING YOU,"
Oct 21, 2021
Claude Gonzales replied to BEDE LOPEZ's discussion ALL ABOUT ANTIGUA HISTORY OF THE STEELBAND
"CALYPSO MUSIC IS NOT ABOUT READING NOTES!!!"
Jun 17, 2021
Ronald Benjamin replied to BEDE LOPEZ's discussion ALL ABOUT ANTIGUA HISTORY OF THE STEELBAND
"Dear pan community, during the ninth century, Guido d’Arezzo invented western music notation. In the twentieth century, Trinidad and Tobago invented the steel pan. Western music notation took hundreds of years to arrive where it is today.…"
Jun 15, 2021
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Mar 30, 2021
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Dec 29, 2020
BEDE LOPEZ commented on Pan Times's page Legends
" cordel barbour an pongie, a legend,"
Dec 24, 2020
BEDE LOPEZ commented on Pan Times's page Legends
" kelvin hart, a legen,     "
Dec 24, 2020
BEDE LOPEZ replied to BEDE LOPEZ's discussion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gbfkIEZpac
"merry chritma everyone,"
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BEDE LOPEZ replied to Claude Gonzales's discussion Let's give a BIG UP to BEDE LOPEZ -- a man who dedicated HIS LIFE TO PAN ....
"(2) Nocturne in Eb (chopin) played by Bede Lopez - YouTube"
Dec 11, 2020
BEDE LOPEZ replied to Claude Gonzales's discussion Let's give a BIG UP to BEDE LOPEZ -- a man who dedicated HIS LIFE TO PAN ....
"(2) Nocturne in Eb (chopin) played by Bede Lopez - YouTube"
Dec 11, 2020
BEDE LOPEZ replied to Pan Times's discussion Duvone Stewart - recipient of The Tobago Medal of Honour - Gold
" A  HONOR WEL DESERVED,"
Dec 11, 2020
BEDE LOPEZ replied to Pan Times's discussion Condolences to steelpan historian and author Ian Franklin
"MY CON DOLENCE IAN, I DITNT KNOW,"
Dec 11, 2020
BEDE LOPEZ replied to Claude Gonzales's discussion Well it is up to KEISHA CODRINGTON to make THE BIG LEAP and pick up 35 POINTS to make TRINIDAD a WINNER; the world's greatest PAN JAZZ PLAYER carried forward his fundamental error from the PRELIMS ...
"i agree with you CLAUD GONZALES, "
Jun 27, 2020
BEDE LOPEZ liked Claude Gonzales's discussion While the other members of the PAN TRINBAGO EXECUTIVE were sheltering from COVID 19 -- MARCUS ASH was BUSY WORKING. On Friday he is producing a PAN TELETHON in collaboration with WACK RADIO ...
Jun 27, 2020

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I started playing pan with city syncopators in the days of kenny and kelvin hart. played with west side symphony (st james) then with city symphony from St paul st.
came to the USA in 1969, played with trinidad & tobago steel band (washington dc), stop playing for a number of years then played and arrange for State side steel orchestra (that time they had the sweetest pan in dc) I do not play any more. I am usually asked to Judge Pan solo competition, Pan competition and calypso competition..

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At 10:20am on March 31, 2017, Brenda Hosang said…
Bede... I have been a member of WST for many years. But my account was screwed up and I can't get to fix it. So I am not s happy camper at this moment.
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At 7:06pm on December 25, 2015, Juanitto Jordano Jorda'ninho said…

Yeah BEDE, Season Greetings and YOUR FAMILY as well, yeah as CEO of SNSE, I was pre occupied hireing a foreign syndicate to secure OUR CLAIM PAYMENT in T&T and the U.S. where THEY disclose the admission of GUILT, when they filed a blank FORM 3A APPLICATION TO PAY BY INSTALMENT (RULE 8. 15 (1) (c) on April 4th 2014, The Applicant Owes the Claimant the amount xxxxxxxxxxx on the clain form and cannot pay the amount in one lumpsum,  BEDE we actually caught these PPL fleecing the T&T treasury of over $81.5 million U.S. dollars, that's $515, 000,000,000.oo million TT dollars, using the PAN as a Camouflage to get to the MONEY, it's time for them to pay the PIPER, and by the way "Lakie" had a stroke, he's in S. Ozone Park Queens NY...

At 2:59am on October 28, 2015, Juanitto Jordano Jorda'ninho said…

BEDE; the New Visionaries are blind as a bat in the daytime, and U of all person should have known long before NOW, that something 's WRONG HERE...

At 11:15pm on October 6, 2015, Juanitto Jordano Jorda'ninho said…

Hey BEDE, what's up man?  I'll be in DC sometime soon, visiting my girls/daughters and grand kids all 12 of them, and I'll pay Von Martin a visit maybe on the show, I'll also give U a call when I do get there...

At 1:50am on August 30, 2015, Juanitto Jordano Jorda'ninho said…

Hey BEDE, all the members of Pan Am North Stars meet and shook Dr Eric Williams hands the night of the Independance Ball at the Governor House, he said to me in his "Gritty Voice tone, so you are the little fellow" ???

At 1:36am on August 30, 2015, Juanitto Jordano Jorda'ninho said…

BEDE,  I've posted this before/already as well, the 4ths & 5ths tenor pan and the whole tone double seconds, double cellos and 3 set basses in 1949, pan on stands blocks and leg's, the triple cellos and the 4 set bass in 1952, pan on wheels 1956, the 5 and 6 bass by 1965, the big over size home made tenor pan, the quadrophonic and quad cellos in the summer of 1968, U can hear these instruments on the "Ivory and Steel" album, all these are Anthony Williams baby's, the Invaders tenor pan Herman Gomez, the Cuatro or Guitar pan Neville Jules, double tenor Percy "lizard" Thomas, the "Echo Phone or triple tenor" 7 basses "Herman( rock) Johnston", the 1st ping pong and the single strummer or strumming pan, rubber on the sticks and tune "Boom" Carlton (sonny) Roach 1946, the Bertphone Bertie Marshall, the 9 and 12 basses Rudolph Charles, and the first man to balance a pan on his knees and play with two sticks, was Aldwin (chick magoo) Springer of "Hell's a Poppin", I hope this info help's, save it U may need it again...

At 10:14pm on August 29, 2015, Juanitto Jordano Jorda'ninho said…

Yeah BEDE, I know, I just didn't add it in, but my favorite's were Run, Night & Day, because we/Panam played them as well, I liked those tunes because they were simple and "Sweet" when City Symphony played them, I also liked their rendition of The Barber of Seville so much, that I arranged it in BWI A Sunjets West Side Symphony in 1968, and I still have the sheet manuscript...

At 6:46pm on August 29, 2015, Juanitto Jordano Jorda'ninho said…

Yeah BEDE, the guy/gentleman's  to whom I was refering to is the late "Walker" who use to tune the front line pans for "City Symphony" and Michigan the arranger of "Run, Night and Day and The Barber of Seville", they played these tunes with us Pan Am North Stars and Clarence Curvan one nite at Port Services on Wrightson Road in 1962 and the Center in St Paul Street 1963, this was before Wallace and Bertie... 

At 6:17pm on August 29, 2015, Juanitto Jordano Jorda'ninho said…

BEDE; in 1961after his return from hospital, Herman "rock" Johnston while working with Williams, decided to drop out 4 lower notes from the double seconds which started at low Eb, Eb E F F#, that took Johnston to G, a middle G in the cello range, so now North Stars had two type of double seconds, one high from G and one low from Eb, "rock" did that middle range tonal evolvement, "Bertie Marshall" in 1964 had to amplify his pans to get it to sound the  way Tony and Rock had our pans sounding naturally, and as for Wallace Austin, I know him when he visited my nextdoor neighbour in 1962, and I had passed on some of Rock and Tony's octave tuning information to him before he started tuning for "Gay Flamingo's", so just go back and listen to "Roses from the South", and as U played the "Echophone" with West Side on "Smoke get's in your Eyes", tell me who tune dem pans...

At 3:34pm on August 29, 2015, Juanitto Jordano Jorda'ninho said…
BEDE; I've already passed on this/that information to you, so I'll reiterate, Anthony Williams derive the 4ths & 5ths in 1949, where he studied the movement of the "Planets" that "PYTHAGORAS" himself had discovered 500 B.C.during his/Williams study of numerology at the St James Library, on the corner of the Western Main and Bournes Road, he also designed and tuned the first double second from the 4ths & 5ths along with the first double cellos you can see him playing along with Belgrave Bonapart in the 1951 TASPO photo's, and the first 3 set basses that Philmore "boots" Davidson is playing, after getting wind of what Williams did, one Mr Everest Barquin, decided to create a double tenor to give the melody a much louder and lower range, he then assign/apoint Percy "lizard" Thomas to tune the instrument which he totally utilized in the 1956 Music Festival where " Katsinjammers" rendition of the "Breeze and I", other tuner's to tune the double tenor before "Bertie Marshall", the first Rupert "shadow" Nathanial of Symphonettes, Kim Loy Wong and Yuclin Gerard of High Landers, and I know for a fact that "City Synphony" also used the double tenor from 1962/63, but I can't remember whom, but "Bertie Marshall" did not arrived on the scene untill 1964, Williams also derived the home made "Big Tenor Pan" that Brian Copeland called his Genesis G-pan in 1968 as well as the "Quadrophonics and Quad Cellos, I hope this information/insight help FELLARS... BEDE U can share this on the forum, I'm still having a problem with the forum feed.

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