I told my wife not to get me anything percussive for Christmas, because she couldn't possibly buy me anything which I don't already own. Well, she proved me wrong and surprised me with this...

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Every time we've been to the Caribbean, I've mentioned to her that I've always wanted a steel drum, but professional, hand-made pans are very expensive and not mass produced. This is an inexpensive 16" G-major scale pan by Panyard with great resonance and "ring". With the notes hand labeled, I was able to belt out "Silent Night" instantly. One more neat toy in the arsenal.

Mike

Very cool! I always wanted to try one of those.

Very nice pan! Need one of those. Great wife you have.

Creighton

Like the scale pan. Have never run across one of those.

Mike

Panyard website is down. Found them at West Music for $159.

Creighton

Good lead Creighton. I just found mine (polished chrome) on West Music's site for $240...

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Glad my wife didn't spend the $1000-$2000 which the custom, hand-made ones cost. Panyard must be a new company. They must have found a way to machine or mass-produce these. Wish their web site was up to learn more about them. Maybe YouTube's got something.

And yah, I do have a great wife, but aren't they all great to indulge or at least tolerate our drum addictions?

Mike

>aren't they all great to indulge or at least tolerate...

So true! When I brought the RK Duco's into the house got a "That bass is in nice shape" and "In cases cool!". She likes 30's National Resonator g-tars so all good.

Creighton

My wife paid for another month of drum lessons for me. She knows how much I enjoy that, it was nice gift.

Santa was good to me this year!Cool1

My 66 BR Headliner Kit w/original boxes. These were a present to the original owner Christmas 1966.

I got a cool drum patent poster from my brother-in-law. Found a frame in a second hand store and it will look nice in the drumgeon!