I love the sound of a
steel drum: it takes me right into any movie set in Hawaii. As it turns out, this is completely due to Hollywood (or to my imagination) because the steel drum is an instrument of African decent. Perhaps movie makers superimposed the music of their Caribbean vacations onto their Hawaiian vacation movies? Or, maybe I just can't keep my mood music straight.
This weekend I was lucky enough to find myself at Barton Springs where I momentarily found myself feeling a little Aloha. My first guess was that all the bikinis were to credit for this mini mind vacation. However, it was discovered that there was a man playing a propane tank that had been turned into a steeldrum. Whoa! It is called a
Hank Drum and you can make one, too!
Here's a
video of a Hank Drum being played. Despite all those new condos, Austin still knows how to keep it weird.
I love the sound of a steel drum: it takes me right into any movie set in Hawaii. As it turns out, this is completely due to Hollywood (or to my imagination) because the steel drum is an instrument of African decent. Perhaps movie makers superimposed the music of their Caribbean vacations onto their Hawaiian vacation movies? Or, maybe I just can't keep my mood music straight.
This weekend I was lucky enough to find myself at Barton Springs where I momentarily found myself feeling a little Aloha. My first guess was that all the bikinis were to credit for this mini mind vacation. However, it was discovered that there was a man playing a propane tank that had been turned into a steeldrum. Whoa! It is called a Hank Drum and you can make one, too!
Here's a video of a Hank Drum being played. Despite all those new condos, Austin still knows how to keep it weird.
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