Here’s the message Marshall has left us:
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Harmonic tuning (“All tuners became my friend.”).
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Soprano pan or high tenor.
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Double Tenor.
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The Quadrophonic (co-invented with the late Desperadoes leader/tuner Rudolph Charles).
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Electronically amplified pans. * The Bertfone, which sustained notes like an organ, complete with damper pedal.
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Pan accompanying the choir in the Cathedral; operating independently as an orchestra, too.
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Stylish jazz phrasing employed in calypso as well as classical renditions for the road.
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Originated the use of canopies for pan racks, realizing before anyone else the damaging effect of heat on the instruments.
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One of the premier party steel bands of its era.
