Winston Simon

Winston Simon

Winston "Spree" Simon (1930 – 18 April 1976) was an inventor, pioneer and musician of the Steel Pan.

Life

Simon was born in Rosehill, East Dry River, Port of Spain, Trinidad. He is credited with the invention of the "Ping Pong" Steel Pan instrument.Simon also was part of TASPO, the "Trinidad All Steel Percussion Orchestra" and visited Great Britain in 1951.

Winston "Spree" Simon worked closely with Anthony Williams who lateron invented the fourth and fifth Soprano Pan. Simon also gave Bertie Marshall significant impulses for his work in developing harmonical tuning.

Further reading

* Felix I. R. Blake: "The Trinidad and Tobago Steel Pan. History and Evolution". ISBN 0-952-55280-9
* The Steelband Movement: The Forging of a National Art in Trinidad and Tobago. By Stephen Stuempfle. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995)
* Ring of Steel: Pan Sound and Symbol by Cy Grant, MacMillan 1999

ee also

*Steelpan
*Ellie Mannette

External links

* http://www.nalis.gov.tt/Biography/history_PanPioneers_WinstonSimonEllieMannette.htm
* http://www.trinisoca.com/steelpan/spree.html


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