As I had mention before, steel pan (drum) was invented in the mid 1940's in the Caribbean twin island country of Trinidad and Tobago, just off the coast of Venezuela. This instrument came about completely by accident by Winston "Spree" Simon but the tone that these concave shapes in a drum motivated him to perfection. The end result was the first steel pan ever made, which he named the "ping-pong". This consisted of consisted on an eight note scale in the key of C major (C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C). Word of this new and exciting instrument spread quickly. This led to the development of the instrument.
By the 1950's, the name Ellie Mannette became well known as well. The ping-pong later changed from having eight notes to 30 notes and was renamed the "tenor pan". This is thanks to Ellie Mannette, who took Spree's main idea and developed it so that the instrument carried every note on a musical staff and their relative octaves. To understand better, the following is a layout of a tenor pan with labeled notes...
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