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The Hopetown Music
Company has been evolving since its founding in 1994 when owner
Larry Mebust and his wife Janet joined a Southern California Steel
Drum orchestra ‘just for the fun of it’. By 1996, we had our own
instruments, a band called the Hopetown Lighthouse Steel Drum Band
and a growing list of music loving fans. Our first web site went
online in 1999 and thanks to our many customers, our growth has
been exponential.
The Steel Drum
Shop came to life as a real showroom in Signal Hill, California
and is a part of Hopetown Music. You can purchase products at the
store or securely at our online store. Quality Steel Pan
instruments are available for worldwide shipment and come from our
experienced group of professional foreign and domestic pan
builders. Here is a map link to our store. We would love to have
you come and visit. At The Steel Drum Shop our goal is to provide
the absolute best in information, service, reliability and
value. That really does say it all...!
Over the years
we've found that people just love the ‘happy, carnival sound’ of
the Steel Drums. During the early years we had a steadily
increasing number of purchase inquiries from both professional
musicians and music hobbyists wanting to own their own Steel Drum
instruments. As a result of this interest, we now offer 4 lines of
Handcrafted Steel Drum Instruments. We combine instruments from
the four builders to suit any individual, school band or
orchestra’s requirements at virtually any level. Our pans
are played by musicians in Japan, Italy, England, Canada and the
U.S.
Are you interested in creating a steel band? Or are you an
individual who loves the sound and wishes to learn this incredible
instrument? The Steel Drum Shop
provides a complete array of products and services to assist you.
Our teachers and staff are eager to provide all the information
and ongoing resource for a satisfying steel pan experience. We
have provided complete packages to school bands all across the
United States. Our packages include comprehensive consulting
to ensure that you receive a setup that's ideal for your unique
needs. Our staff consists of professionals with many years of
experience playing, teaching and tuning pan.
Shop our full
line of audio CDs featuring artists from all over the world. These
CDs are great teaching tools and also wonderful additions to your
personal audio library. The sounds of steel pan orchestras from
Trinidad and Tobago will give you chills from their massive,
vibrant and colorful sound.
Call us of if
possible, visit the store to find out how easy and economical it is to incorporate
steel pan into your life.
Our goal is
your complete satisfaction with our products and service. You can feel
secure in your purchase whether by phone or online.
Contact us
toll free at 888-64-music
Meet the People of Hopetown Music and the Steel Drum Shop.
Hopetown Music and
The Steel Drum Shop are happy places to be. We sell the happiest sound in the world, built in one
of the happiest places in the world by some of the happiest people
we have ever met. We insist that people have fun while working
here just like our great crew in Trinidad has fun building pans
for you!
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OWNERS - Larry
and Janet Mebust. Larry
and Janet are native Californians with an ingrained
love of people, music, warm weather and ocean breezes. During the
80's and 90's they traveled to the Caribbean
several times. They fell in love with the sound of Pan and in 1994
they bought pans (lead and double seconds). By 1996 they
were playing for parties where people started asking how they
could get pans too. Larry started importing them one at a time.
Now in our 10th year in the music business and are still
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OFFICE MANAGER - Mary Long. Mary has been
on-stage as a professional singer for 15 years, 10 of which
has been with her husband James Long. When you call our
office you might be lucky enough to have her answer the phone.
Her personality will instantly improve your life! Quite a
promise, huh? She'll at least have you laughing in a real
short amount of time. Mary loves customer calls and if she's
able to solve a problem or find you exactly what you called
for, it just gets better for her. She's a real treat, a pretty
good lead pan player and we're pretty lucky to have her
on-board.
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OUR TUNER - Francis Lynch. Our in-house tuner is Mr. Francis Lynch. Francis
began playing, building and tuning steel pans as a young man in
Trinidad during the mid 1950's. He has made his living as a
musician for the past 50 years. He has lived all over the world
including over 20 years in South East Asia where he played in
several "big bands" as a saxophonist. He has lived in the Los
Angeles area for the past 25 years. Francis still plays several
Pan gigs each week in addition to adding his magic touch to every
pan we sell. |
1508 E.
33rd Street - Signal Hill, CA 90755 - 888-64-music
sales@steeldrumshop.com
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