carnival street band in 1877 Trinidad...

[Strumelia]

...rival gangs in uniform-costumes would march in the street and play on clarinet, fiddle, variously sized drums large and small, and a triangle:

http://books.google.com/books?id=pAeCAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA56&lpg=P...

I read too that in Trinidad in the 1820s some black carolers with fiddles visited their neighboring plantation to "play Good Christmas to the young misses" for Christmas and New Years- well dressed, and with their hats and fiddles festooned with many-colored ribbons.  (Domestic Manners Vol. II)

Mentioned elsewhere are string, wind, and 'devices of African design', some produced locally in the caribbean such as the ka drum or quarter-barrel drum (which would then have been wooden barrels, not steel).