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Speaking of found sounds like, I 
think the roots of this, you 
know,

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I'm not a historian anything, 
but I you know, I know that

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all these kind of things 
kind of grew into this and there

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being a ton of 55 gallon 
oil drums in Trinidad.

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And they got the idea 
to to pound it in -

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it used to actually go this way 
convex versus concave.

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And...

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So this is a steel 
drum that's been cut?

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Yeah.

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And this used to be the top 
and used to be flat?

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And this was down...

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They bang it enough? Yeah.

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It goes down. Yeah. And they 
used to do all that by hand.

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Now they have machines.

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It's like a hammer 
machine to get it.

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And then you got 
to shape the bowl.

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They have a very specific 
kind of pattern, you know?

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So this is a circle 
of fifths, right?

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So it's like a middle 
C in the keyboard on the piano.

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Right. G. D A.

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And this goes...

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And then the octaves are here

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so you get about two and a third 
octaves on this instrument.

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So when you write for cello for 
the first time or violin for the 
first time,

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would you combine it with steel 
pan in order to sort of be at 
home?

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Yes, a little bit.

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Yeah, that was that was kind of 
my start writing for my friends.

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And it was just a 
natural process.

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Being a composer, performer, 
really primarily a performer,

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I wanted to write more for this 
instrument so I could perform 
with my friends.

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You know, it's fantastic.

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You're building, you're building 
the catalog for your instrument.

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Yeah, yeah.

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You wrote something for violin 
and steel drum, right? Yes.

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Let's play it.

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Awesome.

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