ELLI MAC Production Limited

ELLI MAC Production(ELLI MAC) Limited is a registered business - No: E1717(95), under the Companies Act 1995, in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.

We are distributors for the newly released, Microsoft endorsed PAN IN EDUCATION Double CD. Additionally, we supply SteelPan Instruments, Music, Music Score Sheets and Accessories. Our business operation also involves content design, development and distribution for cellular and wireless products.

ELLI MAC Production is the leading company in national steelpan repertoire with over 45 years of collective experience in Music Production and SteelPan Manufacturing. Our portfolio comprises more than 100,000 copyright works and strategic alliances and partners gained locally and internationally. Two of our country's leading music composers and publishers compliment our team of sound engineers and copyright experts giving us the competitive edge.

The Company's Mission is two-fold:

To offer a platform for Caribbean cultural diversity and innovation to the world.

To soundly establish the presence of Caribbean cultural expressions: Carnivals, Caribbean music etc. In the mainstream of the world of music, art, education and entertainment

ELLI MAC products and programmes aim to provide opportunities for people to make music; to learn music; to learn to play music; to have fun with music using the steel pan as an instrument of choice

The SteelPan is the national musical instrument of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It was invented there circa 1935. This unique and versatile instrument has been introduced into education curricula in the caribbean, the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and other institutions of higher learning around the globe, Finland and Japan, to name a few.

The steelpan (pan) is a definite-pitch, acoustic, percussion instrument. It consists of a circular playing surface, traditionally made from steel, stretched into a concave shape and attached to a hollow, cylindrical resonator called a skirt. This surface is optimised into a number of isolated convex sections called notes. The instrument is usually played with hand-held, rubber-tipped, non-sonorous mallets called sticks.

Note 1 - musicians skilled in the art of playing the instrument are called pannists.

Note 2 - an ensemble, consisting of a family of steelpans encompassing a range of approximately six chromatic octaves, is known as a steelband or steel orchestra.

Note 3 - a rhythm section consisting of a variety of indefinite-pitch percussion instruments usually accompanies the steel orchestra. It is commonly called the engine room.

Note 4 - the steelpan is such a unique instrument that it cannot be definitively classified as either a membranophone or an idiophone. It is the only hybrid percussion instrument in existence today.