09/30 What goes into bike designs
What goes into bike making. Now, the panmaker uses a tuning device, like a keyboard or a stroboscope, and carefully hammers at each note from the top, stretching it and smoothing the note area so that it will vibrate precisely beach cruisers. Each individual note on the drumhead must be tuned in relation to the other notes, or the pan will not “sing” correctly. Often a panmaker will tune each note several times before the whole pan is fully “blended” together and “all the molecules are running in a line”, In the traditional Trinidad carnival steelband all the melodic and harmonic functions are held by steel pans.