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How are steel drums made?
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Steel drums are a percussion musical instrument made out of oil drum which were invented in Trinidad during the Second World War. The first steel drum was made by cutting off the bottom of an oil drum and shaping the flat top into a curved bowl by Winston Spree Simon.
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The pongs are struck with soft mallets to create the distinctive sound. The manufacturing process starts with a steel barrel. In commercial manufacturing this may be a barrel made
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China.
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Sometime in the 1930's
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They are usually made from the top or bottom of a 55 gallon steel oil drum.
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