Tamboo bamboo is a Caribbean percussion instrument (
idiophone
An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the vibration of the instrument itself, without the use of air flow (as with aerophones), strings (chordophones), membranes (membranophones) or electricity ( electrophones) ...
) created in the Caribbean, and is a notable precursor to the creation of
steelpan
The steelpan (also known as a pan, steel drum, and sometimes, collectively with other musicians, as a steelband or steel orchestra) is a musical instrument originating in Trinidad and Tobago. Steelpan musicians are called pannists.
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. Its name derives from the French word for drum (''tambour'') and the material from which the instrument is predominantly made from. It is still played by carnival-goers in Trinidad today, although it was the dominant instrument at carnival at the turn of the twentieth century.
[Stephen Stuempfle, ''The Steelband Movement: The Forging of a National Art in Trinidad and Tobago ''(Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995), 23.]
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Central American and Caribbean percussion instruments
Trinidad and Tobago musical instruments
Idiophones
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