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Ellie Mannette

CAREER:  Ellie entered the dawn of the steelband era when he began beating on metal containers in 1937 at the age of eleven. He joined Alexander's Ragtime Band in Newtown and later helped organize the "Oval Boys" band in 1940.

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    • The Oval Boys later changed their name to Invaders in 1941. He made significant contributions to the growth of pan by developing many instruments of the steelband. He was one of eleven panmen selected to join TASPO as the Trinidad & Tobago representatives at the 1951 Music Festival in England.

    He was the lead tuner on TASPO's 3-month tour of the U.K.

    • He was the first tuner to use a 55-gallon oil drum for crafting pans.
    • His tenor design included 29 notes that transcended four octaves and encompassed the complete chromatic scale, from B in the first octave to E in the fourth octave.

      This tenor design, characterized by an F# in the center of the pan, became a st