Sunday, July 10, 2011

G-Pan is not Copleland's invention: Patrick Arnold

Former Pan Trinbago president Patrick Arnold has told the Guardian newspaper Prof. Brian Copeland should not take credit for the G-pan innovation. 

“When you want to tell me it’s the future of pan, it is not a steelpan. I have a problem with that. You have to plug it in and do all kinds of craziness. Why push an electronic pan?” Arnold asked.

Copeland didn't invent it, he said. “Now I’m hearing they didn’t invent it. Copeland is saying he invented it. That’s why I never approved of the whole thing,” Arnold said. He claimed the designer was Tony Williams. “I objected when they were going to give him (Copeland) the highest award. I objected until Tony and Bertie Marshall were included.

“As far as the PHI pan was concerned, I was not one to push it. T&T has come up with the instrument. We took an ordinary garbage drum and turned it into an instrument. It’s not a pan," Arnold said.

“Copeland is saying he invented it which is not so because I know there was one out there which is the G-pan. He is taking credit for things he didn’t do."

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