Ellie manette biography
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- Elliott Anthony "Ellie" Mannette (5 November 1927 – 29 August 2018) was a Trinidadian musical instrument maker and steel pan musician, also known as the.
- Elliott Anthony "Ellie" Mannette was a Trinidadian musical instrument maker and steel pan musician, also known as the "father of the modern steel drum".
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Dr. Ellie Mannette
Last week the world lost a great creator and the steel band lost arguably its most influential and powerful force. Ellie Mannette died Wednesday August 29 in Morgantown WV where he had lived for the past 27 years. It’s taken me a few days since his death to even begin to find words to write about Ellie, who’s influence on me personally is immeasurable. The modern musical landscape would be a very different place without Elliie and the work he did during his 70+ years of effort in crafting and tuning Steel Pans.
Many have already written eloquent, touching, heartfelt tributes to Ellie and much, if not all of what I say here has already been said. However the message bears repeating: Ellie was a great innovator and creator who, along with a handful of others in 1930s Trinidad and Tobago, launched a new musical instrument and since then developed that instrument from a local folk instrument to the refined, modern instrument it is today.
Ellie was not only a great craftsman and tuner but was also generous with his knowledge and it is that quality that I
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Ellie Mannette
Trinidadian musician and instrument maker (1927–2018)
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Mannette creating a steel pan in 2016 | |
| Born | Elliott Anthony Mannette (1927-11-05)5 November 1927 Sans Souci, Trinidad |
| Died | 29 August 2018(2018-08-29) (aged 90) Morgantown, West Virginia, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Steel pan musician and musical instrument maker |
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| Children | 10 |
Elliott Anthony "Ellie" Mannette[a] (5 November 1927 – 29 August 2018)[1] was a Trinidadian musical instrument maker and steel pan musician, also known as the "father of the modern steel drum".[2]
Life
Born in Sans Souci, Trinidad,[3] Mannette as a young child developed a passion for metal and tools for metalworking, and would become engaged in the evolution of the phenomenon of sounding steel. At the age of 11, he was a member of Alexander's Ragtime Band created by Alexander Ford.[4] From the middle of the 1930s, percussion bands of different quarte
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Bio
Elliott "Ellie" Mannette was born November 5, 1927, in Trinidad. As a child, he was attracted to carnival festivities and music. At age 11, he had his first opportunity to perform in a carnival parade with a group called the New Town Cavalry Tamboo Bamboo (later renamed Alexander's Ragtime Band). The group used traditional parade instruments, but these were subsequently banned by the British colonial government. Band members began experimenting with paint pans and biscuit drums and found that they could vary the pitch by striking different areas. Mannette and some other younger members formed their own band, the Oval Boys, the predecessor to the Woodbruck Invaders, one of Trinidad's best and longest-lasting groups.
When the British lifted the wartime carnival ban after World War II, Mannette became the leader of the Invaders. About the same time, oil drums became the standard source material for the instruments, and Mannette, a machinist by trade, became a pioneer of the new technology. He sank the lid to create a tensed playing surface and fired the metal to improve the aco
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