The Musical Instrument Thread

[Casual Fan]

Cool. This is obviously different, but on occasion I'll play at the Kiwanis Club or a nursing home with a guy who's a landscape architect and a banjo and guitar player. He has one of these Bose systems for small groups.

Bose® L1® Compact System

 

[Casual Fan]

I've changed the title of this thread to "The Musical Instrument Thread" because I didn't want to waste valuable electrons just to show you this below. I'm getting one for my 45th birthday (which is in 19 days...I was only 31 when I joined Sirius Backstage--wow!). It's a cajon, a Peruvian percussion instrument that does a good impersonation of a snare and tom tom as well as maybe a castanet.

It comes as a kit. You glue it together, screw on the back and sides, sand and finish the wood. Everything but the drill and finish of your choice is included. We had one at our ukulele strum last Thursday and I played it for several songs. They're pretty awesome.

Made in Germany, Hectic!

 

[memebag]

So ... you bought a box from a kid at the mall banging on a box.

 

[Casual Fan]

So ... you bought a box from a kid at the mall banging on a box.

No, I buy weed from him. He gets the really good stuff that makes you want to just sit around and beat on boxes.

 

[HecticArt]

So ... you bought a box from a kid at the mall banging on a box.

He had to. The other kid with the plastic buckets was all sold out.

 

[Casual Fan]

He had to. The other kid with the plastic buckets was all sold out.

His plastic buckets weren't German engineered.


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[HecticArt]

So few are.

 

[Casual Fan]

I got the cajon built last night with help from my boys. Tonight is sanding and applying the finish!


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[HecticArt]

It takes cajon's to build something like that.

 

[Casual Fan]

I love cajon humor.

Someone should post some.

Har! Actually, COjones is "eggs" or testicles. CAjones is the plural of cajon. I learned this when the girl on the phone at Musician's Friend couldn't find "COjon" in the computer.

 

[Casual Fan]

The cajon with one coat of poly, after sanding. It looks pretty good, considering my lack of any mechanical skills.

Gonna add another coat of poly tomorrow, put the rubber feet on and call it complete.

Third picture shows how the snare mechanism sits up against the tapa or soundboard.


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[HecticArt]

Nice box hole.

 

[JHDK]

The cajon with one coat of poly, after sanding. It looks pretty good, considering my lack of any mechanical skills.

Gonna add another coat of poly tomorrow, put the rubber feet on and call it complete.

Third picture shows how the snare mechanism sits up against the tapa or soundboard.


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i enjoy looking inside your hole.

 

[Wolf]

Are you going to cover up your bunghole?

 

[Casual Fan]

Are you going to cover up your bunghole?

No. It's where the sound comes out.


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[scotchandcigar]

I think this should be moved to the Uranus thread.

 

[Casual Fan]

I think this should be moved to the Uranus thread.

You'd think, but no one has photographed the inside of Uranus.

 

[HecticArt]

Not that you know about......

 

[scotchandcigar]

You'd think, but no one has photographed the inside of Uranus.

My gastroenterologist has.

 

[JHDK]

My gastroenterologist has.

"gastroenterologist"...so that's what you call these guys: