Labels:bench | book | bulletin board | hakham | person | plaything | poster OCR: Steel Bands STEEL BAND chieflv consists .of instruments pr 'oduced from 55-gallon oil drums. The superb musical properties of these drums were first realized in the 1940s, when was discover ed that bi carefully cutting treating, and tuning the heads of the oil drums, attractive percussion instr uments be made at very small cost. Since then the sound of the steel band has become familiar far beyond the Eastern Caribbean EXaMPLES OF STEEL BANDS islands of Trinidad and Tobago where originated. Wherever they exist steel bands tend important focus for the social and CALYPSO AND CRCHESTRAL BANDS cultural life the community produc ing the joyous sounds associated with traditional carnivals chiefl instrument could beco CTEEI ORCHESTRAL
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