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OCR: Steel Bands STEEL BAND chieflv consists of instruments Dr 'oduced from 55-gallon oil drums The superb musical properties of these drums were first realized in the 1940s when was discover ed that carefull cutting treating and tuning the heads of the oil drums, attractive percussion insti uments be made at very small cost. Since then. tho sound of the steel band has become familiar far beyond the Eastern Caribbean EXAMPLES F STEEL BANDS islands of Trinidad and Tobago where originated Wherever they exist steel bands tend important focus for the social and CALYPSO AND ORCHESTRAL BANDS cultural life the community ing the joyous sounds associated with traditional carnivals instrument produced carefully instr could bevond CTEEI producing