Patina chalybis
Patina chalybis, simpliciter patina, etiam cupa chalybis vel cupa metallica (aliquando, una cum aliis patinis, grex chalybis vel orchestra chalybis appellata), est instrumentum musicum ex Trinitate et Tabaco ortum. Musici qui patinas chalybis pulsant patinistae appellantur.

Descriptio
Patina hodierna est instrumentum percussionale chromatice sonans, ex cupis 55 congiorum quae oleum et res similes olim continuerunt fabricatum. Vox cupa ad cupas ex quibus haec instrumenta efficiuntur spectat; instrumentum autem melius appellatur patina chalybis vel simpliciter patina quia in familia instrumentorum idiophonorum describitur, et ergo non est tympanum, quod membranophonum est.

Patina pulsatur per par bacillorum rectorum latice praefixorum; magnitudo et genus bacilli extremi secundum genus patinarum variantur. Aliqui musici quattuor bacillis utuntur, duobus in utraque manu gestis.

Origines
Coloni Francici et eorum servi—inter quos Africani Occidentales et creoli Francici ex Sancto Vincentio, Granata, Sancta Lucia, Dominica—ad Trinitatem per Res Novas Francicas (1789) ex Martinica migraverunt, communia locorum condentes antequam Britanni Trinitatem et Tabacum ex Hispania capierint. Francici licentias festas secum tulerunt, atque servi, quibus licentiorum ritorum esse participes non licuit, suam celebrationem similem, canboulay appellatam, creaverunt. . . .

Evolutio
Traditur Antonius Williams conlocationem sonorum secundum circulum quintorum ordinatorum excogitavisse, rem tunc anno 1963 descriptionem araneam (Anglice spiderweb design) appellatam (Love 1966:8); quae commune conlocationis sonorum in patinis ducentibus exemplar factum est. Inter aliis inventis magni momenti est intonatio harmonicorum tonorum superiorium in notis singulis, semel et libere a Bertie Marshall et Alano Gervais excogitata.

Familia patinarum

Familia instrumentorum chalybis in multis instrumentorum generibus consistit. Initio motus patinarum chalybis, unusquisque musicus singulam patinam pulsabat—modus nunc usitate instrumentatio "circa collum" appellatus. Deinde, nonnullae patinae chromaticae per plures patinas singulas factae sunt, praecipue in registris bassis, quibus sunt pauciores soni per patinam ob magnitudines regionum sonorum inferiorum. Hic sunt nonnulla ex populo gratissimis instrumentis:

Multos annos homines patinas chalybis in novis condicionibus adhibere conantur. Primus in perfunctione theatrica usus notus (praeter Trinitatem et Tabacum) fuit in The House of Flowers (1954), re musica Broadway Haroldi Arlen, in qua quidam grex, Trinidad Steel Band appellatus, Enid Mosier duce, nonnulla carmina perfunctus est. Anno 1960, Daphne Oram, compositor Britannica, fuit primus compositor qui sonos patinae chalybis electronice tractavit. Primus usus patinae in phonodisco commerciali a The Hollies anno 1967 in disco Carrie Anne effectus est (Thomas 1992:56).

Patinae chalybis in genus iaz fusio a Dave Samuels et Othello Molineaux decennio 199, Ionathan Scales decennio 201, at alii musicis introductae sunt. Sonus patinarum chalybis, quia effectum gratum facilemque ad modum musicum iam multiplicem addit, vehementius dicitur in Morning Dance, albo novae fusionis a Spyro Gyra edito.

Bibliograhia
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Notae

Nexus externi

 Greges chalybis in Francia, sites.google.com (Francice)
 Pan Jumbie, www.pan-jumbie.com
 Steel Bands 4u, directorium gregum chalybis, www.steelbands4u.co.uk

 
Idiophona
Instrumenta musica
Trinitas et Tabacum