Junia Regrello Sets the Record Straight on the G-Pan - Trinidad and Tobago's latest steelpan Instrument Development.
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After years of work a new Steelpan is born. The G-pan includes a tenor pan which features 37 notes instead of 29 and three full octaves rather than the two and a half octaves of the tenor.
There is also a pan which will replace all of the pans now needed in the midrange line up. The G-pan consists of three drums with 36 notes each.
With this development the bass will eliminate the need for four, six, nine and twelve bass pans in an orchestra.
The G-pan was developed by a team of engineers and musicians at the University of the West Indies' St. Augustine Campus. The G-pans are in the process of being patented.
Article source via the Trinidad Express Newspapers