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Pans are an easy instrument to learn (former pan man here) and I have documentation on how to build your own. however building one is not always the easiest and/or safest thing to do by yourself. and then tuning is not the easiest thing considering that it involves peening the note area to get it just right.

Longboardn' ASEL&S wrote:O.K., "The whole nine yards"
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I've seen at least two suppposedly documented!

The one I have heard is that there were 9 yards of ammunition is a fighter plane's magazine. So going the full 9 yards was to receive a full load of ammo before a battle.

Haven't checked snopes yet. Ready to be debunked.

Edit - You have obviously heard the same thing I have. Sorry for the repeat.

oph wrote:Pans are an easy instrument to learn (former pan man here) and I have documentation on how to build your own. however building one is not always the easiest and/or safest thing to do by yourself. and then tuning is not the easiest thing considering that it involves peening the note area to get it just right.

"former?" what did you do with your old pan?

Ukulady wrote:

oph wrote:Pans are an easy instrument to learn (former pan man here) and I have documentation on how to build your own. however building one is not always the easiest and/or safest thing to do by yourself. and then tuning is not the easiest thing considering that it involves peening the note area to get it just right.

"former?" what did you do with your old pan?

I didn't own the pans. I was recruited due to my multi-instrument, dual clef transpositional skills (aka band geek). It's quite expensive to own an entire orchestra. The one I was a member of had 3 leads, 2 seconds, 1 double second, a cello, and a bass. The owner was actually trained in Trinidad.

oph wrote:

Ukulady wrote:

oph wrote:Pans are an easy instrument to learn (former pan man here) and I have documentation on how to build your own. however building one is not always the easiest and/or safest thing to do by yourself. and then tuning is not the easiest thing considering that it involves peening the note area to get it just right.

"former?" what did you do with your old pan?

I didn't own the pans. I was recruited due to my multi-instrument, dual clef transpositional skills (aka band geek). It's quite expensive to own an entire orchestra. The one I was a member of had 3 leads, 2 seconds, 1 double second, a cello, and a bass. The owner was actually trained in Trinidad.

How cool! There is a group out of Long Beach University called Pandimonium. I love seeing them. Pan music just makes me smile.

Ukulady wrote:

oph wrote:

Ukulady wrote:

oph wrote:Pans are an easy instrument to learn (former pan man here) and I have documentation on how to build your own. however building one is not always the easiest and/or safest thing to do by yourself. and then tuning is not the easiest thing considering that it involves peening the note area to get it just right.

"former?" what did you do with your old pan?

I didn't own the pans. I was recruited due to my multi-instrument, dual clef transpositional skills (aka band geek). It's quite expensive to own an entire orchestra. The one I was a member of had 3 leads, 2 seconds, 1 double second, a cello, and a bass. The owner was actually trained in Trinidad.

How cool! There is a group out of Long Beach University called Pandimonium. I love seeing them. Pan music just makes me smile.

It's hard to find good pan recordings but Panyard (http://panyard.com/) is one of very few places that I have found to have recording and sheet music. At one time they had a list of who played their pans and Robert was on the list.