Bertie Marshall (* 1936 as Bertram Lloyd Marshall in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad) is a pioneer, musician and music instrument maker of the Steel Pan.

Life and Merits

Marshall is credited to have introduced harmonic tuning of Steelpan notes in 1956, as well as inventing the Double Tenor instrument.

He also developed the Quadrophonics, Six Pan and Twelve Bass together with Rudolph Charles of Desperadoes Steel Orchestra from Laventille. Marshall has been building and tuning instruments for Desperadoes since 1970.

Marshall was part of a project of the Caribbean Industrial Research Institute in 1982 which investigated the possibilities of machine production of Steel Pans.

Bertie Marshall received the Chaconia Medal (Gold) in 1992.

He further received the Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, presented by president George Maxwell Richards in 2008.^[1]

Readings

Felix I. R. Blake: The Trinidad and Tobago Steel Pan: History and Evolution. ISBN 0-952-55280-9

References

Materials science and metallurgy of the Caribbean steel drum Part I Fabrication, deformation phenomena and acoustic fundamentals, Springer Netherlands, ISSN0022-2461

Reflection on Aspects that define the Steelband culture of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Jeannine Remy D.M.A. and Jeremy G. de Barry P.Dip. E.E.Eng. - June 2005

Notes

Weblinks

http://www.trinbagopan.com/bertie/1803058.html

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