Steelpan Pioneers

This photograph shows some of the first panmen playing biscuit tins with sticks.
This picture was supposedly taken around the late 30's.
Young Mannette (second from right) tuning some of the first pans.

• Norman Darway: Just call him Mr. St James
• The Early Beginnings of the Steelpan: The Untold Story
• Steelband Hoax: Winston Simon did not invent Pan
• From Drums to Tamboo Bamboo to Sweet Steel
• Sufferers of St James: Sonny Roach and the Sampson brothers
• The man who sourced the steel
• 'Bajan Cecil' made the judges sit up
• Tripoli, the great St James steelband
• Wilbert Forde: Man from the Hill
• George Braithwaite: Bassman of Broadway Hatters
• Roy Harper: From Barbados to Blue Stocking Alley
• Sonny Jones: So long, Sonny
• Sonny Roach from St James
• Kenrick Thomas: Survivor of the 50s Movement
• The great Bonaparte
• Hamilton Thomas: Hell Yard - A Place of Rhythm and Riot
• George Goddard's Spirit Lives On
• Pioneer on the biscuit drum
• Pan debate must be opened up
• Story behind the Steelpan
• Lenagan Barnes Loved The Spirit Of Togetherness
• Tribute to the Legend Clive Bradley
• A bit of Despers History from Roy Corrigan
• Rudolph Edwards: Journey with Desperados
• Letters and Comments
• PanTrinbago Photo Gallery