Long before World War II. the government of Caribbean Trinidad banned bamboo drum bands in order to stop bloody street fights between competing drummers. For a while there was comparative quiet, but with the war and the arrival of U.S. forces came a deluge of 50-gallon oil drums, and some inventive fellows discovered a way to make them into musical instruments. They divided the heads into pie-shaped segments, peened them until each segment gave on': a separate musical note when struck with padded sticks. For "bass booms" the drums were left full length, for baritones they were, chopped in half, for...
Music: New Pop Records, Sep. 5, 1955
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