At his Detroit studio, Caribbean Mardi Gras Productions, Ralph Taylor has cleared away the giant Carnival costumes he designs and dusted off a dozen sets of steel drums he’d had in storage for years.

As a youth, Othello Molineaux played piano. By age eleven, he had given his heart to the steel drum, then the newest and most innovative of instruments. He learned to tune the old oil drums, and ...

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 ...

Amid the electronica of 20th Century music one new instrument stands out for its simplicity. The steel pan, possibly the only instrument made out of industrial waste, has become an icon of Trinidadian ...

Ellie Mannette, the father of the modern steel drum, has died at 90. While most people only hear a racket if you bang on a metal trash can, Mannette heard so much more. ELLIE MANNETTE: I listened to ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Sinori is a brand new instrument for percussionists made from a sheet of stainless steel. You can ...

I remember the first time I heard a steel tongue drum. The teacher of a restorative class I once attended had set up several ...