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By 1956, Bertie
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Marshall began playing openly after his mother died in 1954, but had tuned his first pan long before that. At the age of 14, he got an old ping pong from Tokyo
Steelband and tried to retune it, using his harmonica. By 18, he began tuning pans, guided by other tuners such as Carl Greenidge. Marshall
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Caribbean Industrial Research Institute in 1982, which investigated the possibilities of machine production of steelpans. Because of Marshall’s contributions to Trinidad & Tobago’s National Instrument, the T&T government awarded him their
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steelpan its complex sound. By discovering and establishing this harmonic tuning method he is singularly responsible for the sound of today's frontline steelband instruments, brightening the overall sound in the process.
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