Size: 50 x 30 x 30 cm. (19.5 x 11.7 x 11.7 inches)

A flamenco cajón (box-drum) which is ideal to get started in flamenco percussion due to its good price-quality ratio.

This percussion instrument is designed following the style of the Peruvian cajón. The bordonera system (a tool made of wire or lace strings that bounces against the lower drumhead, producing a distortion), the rattles and the material that it is made of, give the cajón a clear sound definition for both its acute and grave sounds, which have volume and energy.

The cajón, from Peru to Andalusia

The cajón is a percussion instrument that has been recently introduced into flamenco music. Its origins are Peruvian, Afro-Peruvian to be precise, as they were invented by African slaves who were transferred to the viceroyalty of Peru, who used the boxes that they used to carry merchandise as musical instruments.

The cajón only made its appearance in flamenco music in the seventies, when it was introduced by Paco de Lucía. Since then, the Peruvian cajón has been progressively adapting to the needs of flamenco, in terms of both sound and rhythm, as it requires more high-pitch sounds than were produced by the original Peruvian design.

Over a short period, the cajón has become firmly established in flamenco. It contributes to creating the rhythm that each flamenco palo (form) possesses. The way in which it works is very simple: by and large, it is a wooden box with one of the side boards missing, in its oldest and most basic version, or which has a hole in one of its sides.

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