The Hang Makers history - 1976 - 2000

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      <td height="23" valign="top" width="65"><strong> 1976 </strong></td>
      <td height="23" width="300"> After a concert of a Trindad Steel Orchestra at a big festival of Berne, two friends, Felix Rohner and Alex Santschi build their own steelpans.
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      <td height="23" valign="top" width="65"><strong> 1977 </strong></td>
      <td height="23" width="300"> The Original Bernese Oilcompany (Berner Oelgesellschaft) is founded, a steelband with 7 players (Round the Neck)
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      <td height="23" valign="top" width="65"><strong> 1979/81 </strong></td>
      <td height="23" width="300"> Concerts at the Gurten-Festival, Andy Narell plays with the band, a concert with him at the Concerthall Bierhübeli. </td>
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      <td height="23" valign="top" width="65"><strong> 1982  </strong></td>
      <td height="23" width="300"> The Band gets a set of Steelpans from Ellie Mannette. The masterpans are studied and the self production includes now the conventional
        pans.
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      <td height="23" valign="top" width="65"><strong> 1983 </strong></td>
      <td height="23" width="300"> Felix Rohner , the tuner of the band, founds the Steeldrum-Manufacture in Berne. </td>
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      <td height="23" valign="top" width="65"><strong> 1985  </strong></td>
      <td height="23" width="300"> Nägeligass-Steelband,the first
        children Steelband is founded by Felix  Rohner.  Members of the groupe are the later wellknown tuner Sabina Schärer
        (PANArt Ltd)  and the arranger Claudio Pini (PANCH). </td>
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      <td height="23" valign="top" width="65"><strong> 1986  </strong></td>
      <td height="23" width="300"> PAN BERN, a reunion of Bernese
        Oilcompany and Nägeligass Steelband with 60 Panists plays the PANORAMA
        Song Pussy, I want you  back in a big concert at the
        main station.
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        Feature at Radio Swiss International on steelpan in Switzerland
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      <td height="23" valign="top" width="65"><strong> 1987 </strong></td>
      <td height="23" width="300"> The
        band organizes the 1. Swiss
        Steelbandfestival in Berne (27 Steelbands)
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        First scientific article in a newspaper </td>
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      <td height="23" valign="top" width="65"><strong> 1988 </strong></td>
      <td height="23" width="300"> Fusion of the two
        bands, building up an own panyard,
        called Steelwyl.
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      <td height="23" valign="top" width="65"><strong> 1988-90 </strong></td>
      <td height="23" width="300"> Tours to Hungary with music of Bela Bartok, to Vercelli (Italy)
        for the carnaval, Transmissions at the swiss
        TV and Radio
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      <td height="23" valign="top" width="65"><strong> 1990 </strong></td>
      <td height="23" width="300"> The Latchmere Schoolband from Brixton (London) directed by John  Barthelemew comes to Berne for a two weeks tour with Nägeligass Panists </td>
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      <td height="23" valign="top" width="65"><strong> 1991 </strong></td>
      <td height="23" width="300"> The Nägeligass Steelband visits the Latchmere Band and plays at the Eastern Parade in London<br>
        Felix Rohner and three members of the Band go to Trinidad. They play with Casablanca Trinidad at
        the PANORAMA-Finals Philmores Get something and wave.<br>
        Meeting with tuners: Bertie Marshall, David Walter, Bertrand Thomas </td>
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      <td height="23" valign="top" width="65"><strong> 1991 </strong></td>
      <td height="23" width="300"> Casablanca Trinidad (14 Players)
        comes for a tour to Berne. Concerts at  schools and in the city with big
        success. The two bands play together and exchange musical
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      <td height="23" valign="top" width="65"><strong> 1992 </strong></td>
      <td height="23" width="300"> The Bernese Oilcompany (25 players) plays with Casablanca Steelochrestra
        at the Panorama in Trinidad: <i>One for the road (Arranger Bendix)<br>
        Felix Rohner at the Conference on
        Standardisation
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      <td height="23" valign="top" width="65"><strong> 1993 </strong></td>
      <td height="23" width="300"> Foundation of the PANArt
        Steelpan-Manufacture Ltd with three members of the steelband.
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        Presentation of two new steelpan-generations: People`s
        Pan and Blackpan.<br>
        Invited speakers: L.Pitchery of the
        Bureau of Standardisation of Trinidad, Gerold
        Lothmar, psychologist and panplayer , The Misunderstood  Reception of the Pan in
        Switzerland
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        Werner Egger,18, gets his diploma as a panmaker (now Cosmopan CH)
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      <td height="23" valign="top" width="65"><strong> 1992-94 </strong></td>
      <td height="23" width="300"> Visits from Roland Harrigin,
        Trinidadian tuner , Dudley Dickson,
        Stirling Betancourt , the pioneer from
        GB, Eckehard Schulz from Germany
        and Rudy Smith from Kopenhagen
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        Sabina Schärer and Werner Egger found a Association Young Pan Switzerland and publish The
        Panyard
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      <td height="23" valign="top" width="65"><strong> 1994 </strong></td>
      <td height="23" width="300"> Felix Rohner visits the panscene in Finland,
        Ari Viitänen and Esa Tervala, tuner
       
        Esa Tervala works two years in PANArt
        (now Cosmopan CH)
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        1. International Panyard in Berne with Pan Lovers Finland , Panists
        from Berlin (Germany) ,Trinidad and Berne.
        (Video: Come down) </td>
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      <td height="23" valign="top" width="65"><strong> 1995 </strong></td>
      <td height="23" width="300"> Sabina Schärer joins the PANArt . Together with Felix Rohner, they begin a intense study of the acoustics and metallurgy of the
        steelpan,
        in collaboration with the american physicists Uwe Hansen
        and Thomas Rossing. The deep-drawned form is realized and and a
        new sound and geometry is born, called PANG.
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      <td height="23" valign="top" width="65"><strong> 1995-99 </strong></td>
      <td height="23" width="300"> Development of the new
        PANG-Family: PING, PENG, PONG, PUNG, Tubal, Orages, PANG-Bells and
        HANG.
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        Formation of 43 Tuners from swiss, french and german Steelbands
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      <td height="47" valign="top" width="65"><strong> 2000 </strong></td>
      <td height="47" width="300"> PANArt gets the Bavarian
        State Award  2000 (Germany) for special technical Innovation. <br>
        The PANArt Tuners are invited speakers at the <b>First International
        Conference on the Science and Technology of the Steelpan (ICSTS) in
        October 2000 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.
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