PETE the Panstick

Pete the Panstick® is a sophisticated, bilingual (Spanish and English) animated character, created by Camille Selvon Abrahams for Sanch Electronix. He helps children comprehend and remember basic musical concepts, in an interactive way. Pete dances, talks, claps his hands and plays the Steelpan.

PIE Business Model

In June 2003, Mark Loquan initiated a project out of a strong belief that the music of Trinidad and Tobago should be recorded, scored, and integrated fully into educational curricula, for universal distribution.

Training

• The first is on-location recorded arrangements of each song ranging from 4 to 6 minutes, performed by various steel orchestras; and
• The second includes the musical scores, computerized using Finale Music Program 2002 format, and showing individual parts to be played by various steelpan instruments, namely, tenor, double tenor, double second, etc.