If you have a few 55-gallon industrial drums lying around the backyard, why not make a couple chromatically pitched idiophones in the Pythagorean musical cycle of fourths and fifths? A steelpan is the national instrument of Trinidad and Tobago, and played with a pair of rubber-tipped sticks. The sounds created are shimmering tones that reverberate inside the Round metal drum with a soothing chime.

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