Triple Cello (Baritone)

The triple cello pan is made out of three drums cut at approximately half their length. Each drum has eight or nine notes, with two or three of them in a middle position. The cello is mostly used for lower chords and bass riffs, filling in the bass line.

The notes are chromatically distributed, left to right from drum 1 to 2 to 3. Since the set-up consists of three drums, this layout procedure means that every third semitone will be put in the same drum. This makes the harmonic intervals of the notes in each drum form a diminished chord: B dim, C dim, and C# dim, left to right.

Overview of the Triple Cello pan

Measures for the Triple Cello pan

The measured cello pan was made in Sweden by Rudy Smith 1988. The layout of the pan has been extended with three extra upper notes according to a sketch from a folder in the CD-album "Steel Bands of Trinidad and Tobago", 1987.