The grooves outline the bulges or notes. The grooves act as guidelines to the tuning of the notes, and assist in controlling the sound. Steelpan instruments also have a skirt or a wall which acts as a resonator to give the instruments their rich tone. The skirts vary in length. Some skirts are short.
Some skirts are long.
Some skirts are not as long or as short. In this broadcast we focus on steelpan instruments belonging to two sections of the steelband, viz. The tenor pans are called first pans or lead pans because they play the leading melody or tune. The double tenor pan is a pair of pans played by a single performer. The double second pan is also a pair played by a single performer.