Transforming an Oil Drum Into an Instrument - Sounds Like Steel BTS Clip 2

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Some tuners would almost NEVER agree to do this. You can tell, he is willing to leave back a legacy!!

Wow. The man has a whole technique developed over time. A real artist. Great work here Chas. World class.

This is my very musically blessed brother Jim/Jimi/ Phillip also known as Panman doing what he loves and enjoy doing, creating,making the musical instruments that we call the steelpan

Thanks to Chas for featuring a living master at his craft. Besides tuning, Jimi is a very talented multi instrumentalist. He plays the electric bass, guitar , keyboards, drums including tassa and all forms of percussion and needless to say a " sick " pannist. What really caught my attention after being pulled into Jimi's orbit, was his ability to arrange any piece of music for pan and it sounded like the piece of music as opposed to pan playing a song. I believe I can write a short book about Jimi but I would leave that for the true writers and story tellers and i hope to see such a thing before we move on to higher plains. I forgot to mention that from time to time Jimi has been commisioned by the Ministry of Arts and Culture and the Ministry of Education to teach the craft/art of pan manufacture and tuning. Lawd, I need to stop now before I really end up writing the book on Jimi "Panman" Philip. Don't stop yet Jimi and huge thanks to Chas Sheppard again.

It was an honour to watch this man share his skills.

My chemistry teachers tried this once thinking it shouldn't be that hard, but the both of them gave up and had to say hats off to these people. So massive respect!

Oh my word when he turned the pan over and started reducing the tension you could hear it go thru an octave it was awesome

I'm speechless every time a see craftsman/musician like Jimi. What a legend!!!!

I am an engineer and it amazes me the talent this man has for his chosen craft.

Backstory....during WW2 both the british and american armed forces had large military bases all over the Caribbean , many (perhaps most) of which were tasked to combat the german navy and U-boat threats to north and south america. Almost all of the fuel and oil used to support the aircraft in serving this effort was imported in 55 gallon steel drums. By the end of the war, there were many thousands of these drums laying in dumps all over the islands. the residents picked up and modified these empty drums for many different uses, including this very pleasant one. the making of music😀😀

Every steel pan is a masterpiece, because nobody taught him to do that, experience and talent only. Well done man!!!!

27:10 the way he tuned that note in… mind blowing! What an awesome skill

Watching him gleefully freehand the markings reminded me a lot of the joy my machine shop teachers would get out of showing us cute setups and old-school ways to line things up by sight. Really cool video.

This guy Jimi is awesome. What a great neighbor to have =)

this is what YouTube is made for. This man is a legend

I am astounded by the level of precision that goes into this craft! A very informative video that elicits the highest respect for the talent of this craftsman.

No computer or technology can teach you this. Absolutely amazing this is Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 own yesss!

Watching this artist at work made this feel shorter than 37 minutes! Incredible talent and dedication to his craft.

'The knowing hand and eye'. Knowing exactly where to hit, how hard to hit and having the ear to know when it's right. All learned over many years. Thank you for showing this master at work.