MUSICAL snobbery has often consigned the beauty and melodism of steel pan as a lower form of musical instrument, and pan jazz virtuoso Leon Foster-Thomas, born in San Fernando, Trinidad, the centre of ...

Tuesday's Google Doodle honors the steelpan, the national instrument of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. The steelpan is a 55-gallon steel freight drum-based percussion instrument, which was ...

On this day, 26 July, in 1951, the Trinidad All-Steel Pan Percussion Orchestra (TASPO) performed at the Festival of Britain, and in doing so introduced the steelpan and a new music genre to the world.

In a United Nations resolution adopted just last year, August 11 is officially World Steelpan Day.While citizens of Trinidad and Tobago, where the pan was born, have long regarded it as the country's ...

Mbira is a musical instrument traditionally from Zimbabwe in Africa. It's sometimes called a thumb piano. Mbira is made from a wooden block, about the size of an adult hand.

Chris Tanner (D.M.A., West Virginia University, 2000) is the founder and director of the Miami University Steel Band. He first became interested in world music as an undergraduate student at West ...