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Percussion Techniques

Triple Guitar

Click above to watch how the triple guitar is played.

This is a set of three pans fashioned from a set of 55-gallon oil drums that represent the baritone voice of the pan ensemble. Often misnamed a steel drum because it is struck with implements and is fabricated from an oil drum, the pan is not a membranophone. The pan is an idiophone with the triple guitar sounding seven to nine pitches from a single instrument, totaling roughly 21 to 27 pitches in all. The pitches in this particular set of pans are in a concentric arrangement of minor third intervals.

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Double Seconds

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Double Tenors

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Six Bass

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Tenor/Lead Pan

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Triple Guitar

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