In Trinidad and Tobago, where steel drum music was invented in the 1930s, the instrument is called the steel pan.
Hundreds of steel drum players will join into megabands of up to 110 musicians.
He was born in Trinidad, where he developed a musical interest after hearing the steel drum.
Ludwig eventually stopped making stainless steel drums owing to their inordinately high cost of production.
They then found a receptacle—in fact, a steel drum—and unscrewed its cap.
These pans are meticulously honed out of the steel drum, sunken and burned over a hot fire, chromed and tuned.
It is not known who plays the steel drum.
Popular instruments used in the performance of the music are the drums, cuatro, maracas, guitar, bandolin, violin and the steel drum.
