birdsong's primary mission is to the promotion and development of the national musical instrument. In pursuit of this mission, we have consistently taken the leadership in structuring approaches to meeting the musical and technical challenges that must be addressed as we seek to position the steel band movement in the global musical landscape. Most of our work in this regard has been undertaken in collaboration with specialist individuals and organizations in the respective fields – engineers, sound research technicians, steelband pioneers, the Caribbean Industrial Research Institute (CARIRI) and the University of the West Indies. Using our own resources, we have supported projects aimed at developing solutions to steel orchestra amplification, mobility of the steelband and the perennial problems of resource mobilization. The Pan Chariot, click here to see a photograph, was developed as an acoustic environment that answer mobility problems with pan on the road.

• birdsong Treasurer, Clem Imbert answers questions in the segment, "Ask the Scientists" on the show Scientific American Frontiers "SCIENCE IN PARADISE—SPECIAL FROM THE CARIBBEAN", "The Pan Man" episode 901 - (courtesy Public Broadcasting Service, www.pbs.org). Click here read.