Cajón

Katy Perry's Firework (Boyce Avenue cover)

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Found this beautiful piece of music instrument while listening to Boyce Avenue cover version of Katy Perry's Firework... I've been repeatedly listen to this song (so many times!! almost once everyday)... last week this particular sound produced by a box (look just like a stool) which u can see it in the MV somehow grabbed my attention... tried google for it and finally found it's name!! Meinl Cajón~

It was a type of percussion instrument that said to be creation of Peru's slaves in the late 18th or early 19th century when they work for the Spanish Colonial America's shipping ports... They uses wood crates from the port and turn them into Cajon drum... This is to replace the native drum they left back at their country and also during this period of time... slaves are not allowed to play or possess any music instruments and will be punished if they get caught with one... Hence.. to avoid being punished... they uses the drum as stools to disguise their wonderful music instrument - Cajon... so this is how it was created... Nice right?!!

This is how a Cajon look like...

Hopefully I can play with it one day... enjoy the song!! =)