Toblerone playing steelpan

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Last Friday I played steelpan for the PM's XI Cricket Match. The match was rained out, in fact it was a huge storm that killed a friend of a friend of our family.
Below is the photo that appeared in the Canberra Times the next day. It's a crappy shot of me, but hey look what the poor photographer had to work with!

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The pan I'm playing is called a "Double Second" which is used to play chords, the green pan is a tenor pan which of course plays melody and the guy in the foreground (Martin) is holding a two note bass drum onomatopoeically called a du-dup which plays rhythm.
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
I like Steel Band music! Dancing to those rhythms can be a lot of fun!
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
So you are on the right?
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
I like Steel Band music! Dancing to those rhythms can be a lot of fun!


Yeah. Unfortunately it is a pleasure that isn't too well known in Australia. One of Dad's on going projects has been to try and get a proper steel orchestra started. Although ther a few people that play steelpan around the place there are no big steel orchestras.

So you are on the right?


Yeah that's me.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
You don't play drums as well, do you?
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
You don't play drums as well, do you?


What do you mean by "as well" do mean "as well as you" or "as well as all the other things I do"?

I play all the different steeldrums in the picture but I don't practice much so my repetoire at the moment is fairly small. I used to be able to play more stuff when I was 17.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
Cute.

You're a celebrity! Hehe.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
What do you mean by "as well" do mean "as well as you" or "as well as all the other things I do"?


- yep, should have phrased my question better. Do you play normal drums too?
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
Nah. I wish I could though. I'm not sure I have the co-ordination to do one thing with one hand and another with thing with another etc.
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
Yeah that's me.


Nice beard! Will have to show you mine sometime! Us whisker faces got to stick together!

Got a CD?
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
Totally BEARD POWER!


CD: Yeah we have a CD dad made that can sell when he busks. It is a recording of session he did at a local radio station with about 15 tracks. That one isn't purely steelpan it has some sax and stuff thrown in and sound pretty good, very jazzy a bit jazzier than the sort of stuff dad usualy plays. We do have a pure steelpan CD but I'm not too impressed with it, it was a real studio deal where different instruments were recorded seperately and mixed together later, it sounds a little flat like it lacks feeling.
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
Nah. I wish I could though.


Pity. I know someone in the ACT looking for a drummer for a band. I wonder how punk music and steel drums would sound together?

Us whisker faces got to stick together


Totally BEARD POWER!


If you are going to form a club, count me in too.
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
Toblerone's a hottie!