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So you want to buy
a steel drum?
If you've spent any time researching suppliers, you've come
across a variety of stores and websites, and a wide range of
prices. Pans can range in price from $400 to $5,000 or more
for the higher-end chromed lead pans. Sometimes you will have
to wait one, two, even three years to receive your new pan.
Why not go to the source and mail-order
a pan from Trinidad? That is definitely an option, but the consistency
and quality of craftsmanship, the chroming and the tuning can
all very greatly. Worse, it could be damaged in shipping if
not packed properly ...
and you can't count on good service
and satisfaction from a panbuilder
3,000 miles away.
Maccabee Panworks
was developed to offer a reasonably priced, high
quality, custom-built customer oriented option to steel drum
fans who are looking to buy.
If you order
a pan from
Maccabee Panworks,
you will not only receive professional, courteous service,
but you will receive a written guarantee on your new steel
drum. In fact, before it is shipped, the pan is
personally inspected and played.
Throughout the process, you will deal
only with Maccabee Panworks ... and we'll even give you the
first tuning for free!
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From
the biscuit tin drum of the 1930's, which had only four or five
notes, the pan has developed into the full-range "chromatic"
family of instruments it is today.
The
only family of acoustic instruments developed in the 20th century,
the pan has its roots deep in the West African drum tradition
and its branches reach to all genres of music today.