steel drum
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Olof Dreijer, from the Knife, has found a new sound source: the steel drum, that remarkable percussion instrument that can also play and sustain melodies.
From New York Times • May 5, 2023
Theory: Hoffa’s body was delivered to a Jersey City landfill in 1975, placed in a steel drum and buried about 100 yards away on state property that sits below an elevated highway.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2021
Identifying her work as “arquitectura povera” in homage to the radical art movement Arte Povera, she reconstructed the industrial shell of a former steel drum factory into a cultural arts and sports center.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2019
A key part of the conversation had been drowned out by a steel drum.
From Slate • Jun. 22, 2017
Walowick was firing toward a steel drum that lay on its side.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
