Chords for C IN CARNIVAL: MAKING STEELPANS:

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Welcome back.
Thousands of people come to Trinidad to enjoy the carnival spectacle,
and in particular, that all-unique instrument, the steel band.
But did you know that each steel pan is made individually by hand?
In painstaking process that hasn't changed since the 1940s.
[N] Roger Dworeka and cameraman Ricky Gokul met a steel pan maker in Esperance Village in Philippine,
who's been carrying out the art form since he was a boy. _
_ _ _ _ In the dawn's early light of a quiet Sunday morning in a tiny corner of Esperance,
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a man is working, alone, [F#] beginning the makings of a very special instrument. _ _
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Peter Alman-Joseph has been making steel pans by hand since age 8. _ _ _ _ _
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_ His fingers are nimble, his movement agile, his workshop his front yard,
as he works dexterously in the morning [C] sun.
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_ [Em] Pan making [F#] is a fine art form.
It's a practice that hasn't changed in more than half a century. _ _
_ _ _ I make sure everything is raised up.
I [G] can have the pan at [G#] different angles, [C#] different heights,
so I can actually be comfortable.
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There are no mass production lines, nor machines, just the hands of the master craftsman.
So really, all pans have plenty of notes, but all of them have 12 in different _ octaves.
That's it.
So now, _ what I do is, I [B] follow the line.
_ [D#] And you follow the line simple, [C#] this way.
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_ _ _ _ _ The veteran pan maker tells us he's always lived humbly.
Many people may not know his name, but the people that need to, do. _
_ Carnival, you end up making hundreds if you start in the right time,
because we start for carnival after carnival.
So, the pan maker, as carnival finishes, you still go on making pan until carnival comes around again.
I make pan for people in England, I make pan for people in Germany, _ _
Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, Panama.
_ _ The process of making a steel pan is simpler than most people think.
Peter starts in the morning, and by dusk he can have a pan ready to be played.
But _ this is where the real magic happens. _ _ _
[F#] Tuning.
All [Dm] to make sure the _ _ [A#] _
_ _ _ _ notes is [N] right. _
Originally, 30, 40 years ago, how would you tune a pan when you made it by hand?
By the piano.
_ _ _ So I guess you had to have a piano close by then?
Oh, somebody will have one.
If you get vexed, you go down to the church and ask the man.
_ _ _ This [G] process usually takes up to five hours.
It takes the steadiness of a surgeon, [C] a patient mind, and a finely tuned air, [F] _
perfected over many years.
_ _ It is the only instrument invented in the 20th century here in Trinidad and Tobago.
And incredibly enough, it's still made by the traditional method by hand.
You start from the rusty oil drum, down to the smoothening process,
then to the tuning process here, and [C] the final gorgeous chromed product that will enthrall crowds.
But before they go out, [D] Peter Joseph always checks to make sure [D#] they're going to give that beautiful melodic [A] sound.
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