Winston Simon
Winston "Spree" Simon (1930 – 18 April 1976) was a Trinidadian inventor, pioneer and musician of the steelpan.
Life
[edit | edit source]Simon was born in Laventille, Trinidad. He is credited with the invention of the Ping Pong steelpan instrument. Simon also was part of TASPO, the Trinidad All Steel Percussion Orchestra and visited Great Britain in 1951.[1]
Winston "Spree" Simon worked closely with Anthony Williams, who later invented the fourth and fifth soprano pan. Simon also gave Bertie Marshall significant impulses for his work in developing harmonical tuning.[citation needed]
The American musician and composer Van Dyke Parks celebrated the life of Winston Simon in the song "Tribute to Spree" on his album Clang of the Yankee Reaper written and first recorded by Lord Kitchener.[2]
Simon is said to have invented the 8-note ping pong in 1943 and the 14-note ping pong in 1946.
Further reading
[edit | edit source]- Felix I. R. Blake, The Trinidad and Tobago Steel Pan. History and Evolution. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Stephen Stuempfle, The Steelband Movement: The Forging of a National Art in Trinidad and Tobago, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995
- Cy Grant, Ring of Steel: Pan Sound and Symbol, Macmillan Caribbean, 1999, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
See also
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[edit | edit source]External links
[edit | edit source]- http://www.nalis.gov.tt/Biography/history_PanPioneers_WinstonSimonEllieMannette.htm
- Terry Joseph, "Remembering 'Spree' Simon", TriniSoca.com, 18 April 2001
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