Allan Charles traces the emergence of the modern steel orchestra from the spontaneous eruption of hundreds of young men beating bamboo sticks onto the streets of Trinidad. and the discovery that oil drums could be tuned into melodious percussion.
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Allan Charles traces the emergence of the modern steel orchestra from the spontaneous eruption of hundreds of young men beating bamboo sticks onto the streets of Trinidad. and the discovery that oil drums could be tuned into melodious percussion.
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