Today's Google Doodle celebrates steelpan music, and specifically the steelpan instrument. The percussion instrument was created by Trinbagonians (people from the Caribbean island country of Trinidad ...

MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson MUSICAL snobbery has often consigned the beauty and melodism of steel pan as a lower ...

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 ...

As a young drummer fine tuning his skills in Trinidad, Salmon Cupid always wondered why the steel pan wasn’t electrified as the guitar and piano were. “I didn’t know how to do it. I just knew I had a ...

The traditional method of manufacturing the steel-pan included 'dishing out' a bowl from a 55 gallon oil drum and hammering out the notes. Notes are then marked and grooved out. To make a steel-pan ...

A new animation, served to millions today on Google’s homepage, tells the fascinating history of a great percussion instrument – the steelpan. Today, Google has published a new Doodle (watch above) in ...

Composer Andy Akiho explains to host Scott Yoo why he loves the steelpan drum. Both then play his piece “Deciduous.” Speaking of found sounds like, I think the roots of this, you know, I'm not a ...