Some general information for anybody interested in playing the steel drum - two years ago I went to a party where a woman was playing the steel drum. This woman was a music teacher by trade, and she was competent on many instruments. She said that the steel drum was the hardest to play, because there is no connection between the location of a note on the drum head note and its pitch. She seemed to find it quite a strain, actually.

So before anybody spends a lot of money on a steel drum, they should try it out for a few days to see if they can master that challenge.

It might be an advantage if you had never played an instrument before.

BTW, is that what they are always called across the pond, "steel pan"? When I saw the thread title, I thought it would be about cooking.