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The Technology of Pan
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When Geniuses meet Genius

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Massachusetts - Who said engineers can't dance?  On any given day you can find today's and tomorrow's next great engineers, scientists and Nobel Peace Prize awardees running across the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). MIT is one of the most respected and prestigious technology-based institutions of higher learning in the world.  The members of this academic community are normally absorbed in their daily collegiate routines.  Rocket scientists, theoretical mathematicians, electrical engineers - you name it, they are here.  You can watch them as they carry their models of new inventions and concepts literally in their hands and minds.  And as is the case more often than not, these brilliant minds are locked into their own world of studies, exams, new innovations - setting the world on fire.  With their aeronautical models, chemistry, mechanical, electrical and other material/books, you quickly realize they are already into tomorrow.    But this day would be different as MIT was about to get a heavy dose of 'back to the future' with the steelpan instrument as Pantonic Steel Orchestra landed on campus.  On this day the students, faculty and staff - geniuses themselves - enjoyed and marveled at the genius of the instrument.

PantonicDSCN0962.JPGIt is only fitting that these sometimes stoic and perceived nerdy beings, oblivious and un-phased by pretty much anything, (as they really are the ones who cause the world to be phased, with their dazzling technical brilliance and discoveries) would be stopped dead in their tracks on this spring day by another genius invention - the steelpan.  The busy and normally unmoved prodigies were all forced to stop, gaze, inspect and acknowledge this instrument developed by another set of geniuses from the 20th century, as the stage side of the imposing Pantonic  Steel Orchestra went through its repertoire of a wide and varied genre of music. 

PantonicDSCN0963.JPGThe audience nodded in approval and applauded the performances -  while inching ever closer and closer to the performers for a better critical and scientific inspection of this instrument from the recent past, that seemed to be impacting on their present and future sensibilities, defying their normally understanding of the laws of physics.

Indeed each piece performed further challenged the senses, accepted norms and known realities of the workings of the steel drum.  After the show, several students surrounded Tyrone, ace Pantonic tenor musician, for a closer look at the wonder of the instrument, among them Arlis and Hadi Salam, both graduate students. The inventors of the steelpan instrument would be extremely proud to watch their musical wonder fascinate the next generation of future wiz kids on the footsteps of MIT.

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