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a steel pan is a type of instrument used in Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean islands.

They have various notes and are used by many people.

It's a wide curved metal bowl shaped thing with flat areas in it. Each part of the surface makes a different note. The sound something like a steel drum but they are smaller and easier to move around.

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