The steel pan (or drum) is the national instrument of which island nation, where it was invented?
Steelpan Steelpan Steelpans (also known as steel drums or pans, and sometimes, collectively with other musicians, as a steel band or orchestra) is a musical instrument originating from Trinidad and Tobago. Steel pan musicians are called pannists. The modern pan is a chromatically pitched percussion instrument made from 55 gallon industrial drums that formerly contained chemicals. "Drum" refers to the steel drum containers from which the pans are made; the steel drum is more correctly called a "steel pan" or "pan" as it falls into the idiophone family of instruments, and so is not a drum (which is a membranophone). Steel
Steel tongue drum Steel tongue drum A steel tongue drum, tank drum or hank drum is a round steel slit/tongue drum originally fashioned from a propane tank. A steel tongue drum can be made from an empty (often 20 lb) propane tank. The tank is flipped over, the base cut/knocked off; and seven to ten tongues are cut radially into the bottom of the tank, forming the top of the instrument. Steel tongue drum can also be made from new unused tank heads. The tongues can be tuned by the maker by varying the length of the cuts, or by adding weights, often