So, getting excited about building my cajon, I did a lot of research on the web, and You Tube. There were some excellent tutorials, and detailed writeups of other peoples adventures in cajon-ing.
Along the way, I came across a kit, marketed by a company called Schlagwerk in Germany.
So, I got another idea. Why not use the kit as a learning experience and make it while I make my custom cajon?
The Schlagwerk website showed two dealers for their products in Canada, one in BC and one in Montreal Quebec, Timpano Percussion. www.timpano-percussion.com
I emailed the BC store but they did not stock it. Timpano Percussion however advised they had one on order coming in, so I asked them to hold one for me.
I was very pleased with the customer service from Timpano Percussion, they kept in touch, gave me realistic expected ship dates and were a pleasure to deal with via email and on the phone for the final order.
And the parcel arrived just before Christmas!
Colin builds a cajon...well 2 cajons actually, on his living room floor. (To follow my progress, read from the bottom of the blog up...)
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
How it started...
This whole Cajon thing started last summer.
My wife and I were at a garden party in Nanaimo, being entertained by very a talented muscial duo who played guitar, trumpet and sang.
During the performance, the singer was sitting on this box-thingy and tapping away and generally having a great time keeping the beat.
The box looked very exotic, with inlay and a beautiful finish, but most of all it sounded great.
Never in my life having seen one before, I was instantly intrigued. And it all looked so easy.
I've been drumming my hands on my thighs, on my desk at work, on old boxes, the top of my guitar to different beats bouncing around in my head but this looked so cool.
Describing this instrument to a friend who plays bass in our jam group, she told me it was a cajon.
I thought a cajon would be the perfect addition to our Monday Night Jam and there an then, I decided I would build my own.
I am absolutely not a wood-worker, a craftsman, not even a handyman or DIY guy, I hammer nails in crooked and strip the heads of screws as I sweat to install Chinese-made shelves, but surely making a cajon would be easy..its really just a box, right? How hard could it be to slap some wood together and glue it?
Well, this blog will reveal the fun, the trials, the frustrations and hopefully wonderful beats and rhythms from the final "box".
My wife and I were at a garden party in Nanaimo, being entertained by very a talented muscial duo who played guitar, trumpet and sang.
During the performance, the singer was sitting on this box-thingy and tapping away and generally having a great time keeping the beat.
The box looked very exotic, with inlay and a beautiful finish, but most of all it sounded great.
Never in my life having seen one before, I was instantly intrigued. And it all looked so easy.
I've been drumming my hands on my thighs, on my desk at work, on old boxes, the top of my guitar to different beats bouncing around in my head but this looked so cool.
Describing this instrument to a friend who plays bass in our jam group, she told me it was a cajon.
I thought a cajon would be the perfect addition to our Monday Night Jam and there an then, I decided I would build my own.
I am absolutely not a wood-worker, a craftsman, not even a handyman or DIY guy, I hammer nails in crooked and strip the heads of screws as I sweat to install Chinese-made shelves, but surely making a cajon would be easy..its really just a box, right? How hard could it be to slap some wood together and glue it?
Well, this blog will reveal the fun, the trials, the frustrations and hopefully wonderful beats and rhythms from the final "box".
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