cajon

cajon

since the glazes have been gone to alaska for the summer and jodi, joel, and brad have ben graciously filling in for the leadership of tapestry’s music each sunday night i have often been playing percussion. i’m an adequate djembe player with dreams of actually being funky. those of you who were a part of the parkview student ministry will remember that i would often pretend that i was a good drummer when our normal percussionist were missing. i’ve found myself enjoying filling in on the djembe this summer and i have now convinced myself i can move on to a new instrument, the cajon. it’s a wooden box with guitar strings on the inside. it produces an enormous amount of bass. i desperately want to play one of these things well. even though i probably won’t ever be able to play it well doesn’t mean that i’m not going to try. how hard can it be to play a wooden box?

after i learn how to play the wooden box (a.k.a. cajon) i’m moving on to a mandolin 🙂

5 Replies to “cajon”

  1. Ben has a cajón. He plays it like a mad dog. I see you have the seeded gourd too. We have a couple of those, but I don’t know it’s name. What is it?

  2. When I was in Orange, we had a guy who played the cajon in church pretty regularly. Only we just called it "the box." He also played the mandolin. One day, I said he must have washed his guitar in hot water.

  3. When I was in Orange, we had a guy who played the cajon in church pretty regularly. Only we just called it "the box." He also played the mandolin. One day, I said he must have washed his guitar in hot

  4. When I was in Orange, we had a guy who played the cajon in church pretty regularly. Only we just called it "the box." He also played the mandolin. One day, I said he must have washed his guitar in hot water.

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