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4. The drums in this video were built by a man from Trinidad.

The set cost $35,000. The man who built them is considered one of the pioneers of both playing and constructing steel drums.

He grew up in the streets, poor, using old empty drums "borrowed" from a nearby Navy depot in the 1940's. He is in his eighties now.

This band also has a more traditional, "beat up" set, but only to demonstrate the difference in sound quality.


Edit: I hope he isn't considered too harshly. Half the world was destroyed in the 1940's. Not much more harm in a few empty drums considering the bigger scheme of things.