In protest of this ban, the musicians started to pound bamboo tubes on the ground to mimic the sound of drums that they played.
However, in 1877, the government banned drumming because they believed it could inspire rebellion by sending radical messages. When slavery was abolished between 1834-1838, the inhabitants of Trinidad and Tobago started celebrating their festivities with drums. The slaves carried the African tradition of rhythmic drumming along with them. Steelpan roots can be traced back to the 1700s when enslaved Africans were brought to Trinidad by the colonialists. It is considered a major musical instrument of the 20th Century. Google is celebrating the Steelpan with a doodle today, and the reason behind the celebration is that Google is commemorating the day on which the Steelpan was introduced to the world as a percussion instrument by the TASPO while performing at the Festival of Britain on 26th July 1951. The percussionists produce music from the Steelpan by striking the different-sized dents present on the surface of the drum with mallets. It is also the national instrument of Trinidad and Tobago. It has origins dating back to the 1700s and was featured regularly in Canboulay, the annual harvest festival of Trinidad. Steelpan is a percussion instrument made of 55-gallon steel cargo drums introduced to the world in 1951 by the Trinidad All-Steel Pan Percussion Orchestra (TASPO). The duration of a Google Doodle is 24 hours.
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