 In the 1980s Andrew made a design for a 17-note karimba, based on Tapera's 15-note instrument, using the same hardware as the Hugh Tracey treble kalimba, and AMI began selling it as the African Tuned Karimba.While Andrew's seven-year stint performing in a Broadway musical did not leave any time for ethnomusicological research, Andrew's studies at ILAM did allow him to perform.In 1969 when he returned to Africa, he started the Andrew Tracey Steel Pan Band, which performed around Grahamstown and South Africa and in festivals such as the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown until 2007.