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Location: NJ | Due to a popular demand I am now offering cajons for sale
you have your choice of the following
LP1432 - LP Cajon-$249.00- in stock
LPA1331- LP Aspire Cajon-$159.00-in stock
LP1431- LP1431 Mario Cortes Cajon-$319.00 out of stock
LP1433- LP Angled Cajon-$259.00-out of stock
the prices you see are LIST prices if interested contact me for YOUR price.
the coolest one is the last one and that is out of stock for a while so if you want one I can put the order in and you can be first on the list.
do you have the cajones to play a cajon? |
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Location: closely held secret | These are very cool instruments. I hadn't seen one before last weekend.
Think of it as a drum kit (bass, snare & HH) contained in a 12x12x16 box that you sit on while you play. |
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Location: Scotland | The Aspire model has about the same retail price as the one I brought over but the construction is tidier and it has better bass response. Personally I prefer the basic $249 LP model over the more expensive Cortes. The Angled model is the one to have. |
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Location: Scotland | Just to clarify my last post. I meant the Aspire is tider and has better bass than the one I had at Amelia. |
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Location: NJ | The Aspire stuff's not bad (for the money).
I've got a nice pair of Aspire bongoes.
Aspire is to LP what Celebrity is to Ovation. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Related to caja, spanish for box. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | So Al, what is the difference between the models?
Any pics or literature you can post or direct us to? |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Say Stephen, I ordered one, so when it arrives, if you bring over your Collins and twins for me to play with, I'll let you beat on my Cajons. |
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Location: NJ | go to the latin percussion web site
they have all the info |
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Location: Scotland | They also have sound clips. My advice, either go for the $249 LP model, the extra hundred bucks is worth it over the Aspire, or wait for the angle-panels to come in. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Originally posted by stephent28:
So Al, what is the difference between the models?
Any pics or literature you can post or direct us to? Boy, you talk about having some big cajones! Why don't you just ask him about the next factory tour while you're at it? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
Say Stephen, I ordered one, so when it arrives, if you bring over your Collins and twins for me to play with, I'll let you beat on my Cajons. That could be arranged but be prepared for a major case of GAS! I suspect you would be calling Al (who never closes) before I get the baritones back out to the car. The 6 string is really nice but the 12 string is just a fookin freak of nature. |
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Location: Scotland | If anyone needs a microphone for your new Cajon, I have stock of the little clip-on dynamic I was using inside mine at Amelia. It's intended as a snare/tom mike but works great inside a cajon. Email me for price, they are not expensive. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Are there any models available in Lycracord? :cool: |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by cholloway:
Are there any models available in Lycracord? Oh YES, they exist. In fact there is a whole internet fan club devoted to them. Of course you'd rarely see any in your local music shop and no high profile musicians are ever seen playing them but they do exist.
Dave
BTW, I think it's spelled "Lyrachord". At least that's what the T-hirt says ... |
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Location: Scotland | My current stock of cajon mics is now sold out, thanks guys. I can get them easily, so if anyone else needs one, let me know |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Got my Cajon today. Angled front model.
WAY COOL. Thanks to MR. MOTS (Man On The Shirt) |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Ditto....got my Angled Front model today also.
Real beauty.
LOOK MOM....I'm a drummer (wannabe)! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I got mine this week too. I bought an extra one and will give it to Joe for the Florida House tonight. It is Wednesday, topic is Mexico. I chose New Mexico. Going for three straight weeks of nada. Using the CJ through the Ashdown Reso-1 little acoustic amp and the loop pedal. |
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Location: Scotland | OK, so now you all need to put together something like this:-
This is cheap used stuff from ebay and a couple of bargains from Guitar Centre. 18" crash, drilled and paper fastners added, 10" splash, 12" china and a tambourine. The whole lot came to less than $150 including the hardware and stand.
Clip-on Cajon mikes are back in stock if anyone needs one. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Now THAT looks like fun. |
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Location: NJ | Got my LP AngledFront this week as well . . . VERY Cool!!!
I've also got an extra one that'll be accompanying me 'cross the Atlantic at the end of May, but will stay behind to reside on this little Island in Scotland ("ToughLife", . . for a cajon).
Friggin' cajons're racking-up more FrequentFlyer Miles than ME!! . . . . |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Everybody seems to have gone gaga over the Cajons. Good grief. You guys are nuts. (Mine should be arriving today, too.) |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | That's the beauty of this club - it takes all the pressure off of having to make buying decisions. Just buy what everyone else does and you'll probably not be too disappointed. Nor have much money left in the bank.
Dave
PS - Do banks even exist anymore? I mean the old brick ones where they actually stamped your balance in your bank book, and you went and made your weekly Christmas Club deposit? |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | I wonder if my daughter would actually bang on one of these for more than a week before she got bored with it too???
Maybe if I got one with the TV remote control painted on the face of it :confused: |
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Location: big island | i got an LP angled cajon a week ago and i don't get any play time cuz my kids are bogarting it. |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | Really...very interesting...~Oh, Al~ |
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Location: big island | in all fairness, i bought it a week ago, it arrived last monday. alotta "bang for the buck"! i will probably want to record with it so i'm gonna check out the mic that paul mentions. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I had fun with mine last night!~ |
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Location: NJ | Really???
Is the inside of it washable?? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | What!!!!!
and kill that special smell! |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Speaking of the insides, I noticed that the one at Amelia used about a half-dozen bells to obtain its snare-like tones. Mine has a number of small chains similar in size to a medium size necklace. Is this like comparing humbuckers and single-coils? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I've only seen them on the internet. I never heard of them till you guys started talking about them. Of the ones on the internet, I've seen an actual snare from a drum used and also wires that looked like guitar strings strung across the inside of the front, sometimes diagonally and sometimes top to bottom. |
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Location: big island | my LP has snares. they resemble chains at first glance but upon closer inspection, they are snares like the ones on the bottom of a snare drum. |
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Location: Scotland | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
Speaking of the insides, I noticed that the one at Amelia used about a half-dozen bells to obtain its snare-like tones. Mine has a number of small chains similar in size to a medium size necklace. Is this like comparing humbuckers and single-coils? The bells are not that important. The main source of the snare sound was a couple of 0.042-ish guitar strings under tension, resting against the front panel, exactly as Mark describes. Some cajons use this method, others such as the LP angle-panel use cut down snaredrum wires. Amounts to the same thing. Some have sophisticated mechanisms to adjust the snare sound (which triples the cost of the thing) That pretty much amounts to attempting to gold-plate a turd.
Randy, I have only 2 mics left from my current stock. I can get more but they are out of stock at the distributor so could be several weeks. |
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Location: NJ | As I was describing to Temp & Beal:
They both sound GOOD, . . each just a lil' "different" . . .
Temp's ChineeProto sounds like set of chrome Slingerlands . . . Wet&Snare-y . . .
The AngleFronts're a bit Drier&Woody-er . . . like a big, heavy set of wooden Ludwigs . . .
BothGood/Different. |
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Location: Scotland | For those of you who bought Cajons from Al and microphones from me, just thought I'd share this neat little internal microphone instalation.
Remove the thumbscrew/bolt from the microphone clamp and drill a hole in the base of the cajon. The mike now screws directly to this. Get hold of a male XLR chassis plug and mount it in the back of the cajon. Take a short length of microphone cable and solder a female XLR line socket to it, soldering the other end to the chassis plug.
The entire job took me less than 20 mins. I'm not really sure if it's worth the effort but it looks tidier and saves all of 45 seconds of set-up time at a gig!
Incidentaly, I have 1 of these mikes left and that's it, I can't get any more. So if you need one now's your last chance. $65 plus shiping
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Location: NJ | GreatIdea!!!
When we had this set up for "th'Vic", Paul installed two mics into it, the one in the pic for the "kick", and a smaller, condensor mic for the "slap" of the snare (and each mic was eq'd correspondingly) . . .
Thru a PAIR of Bose units, it sounded KILLAH!!!!! |
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Location: Scotland | Yeah, it was pretty damn good
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Location: NJ | btw;
The cajon came over w/me from the States.
We figured "why transport an empty box?", so I took the face-plate off (17screws), and we PACKED it with sundry goodies & closed it back up again.
I fashioned a sturdy handle onto the shipping carton, and it served as THIRTY-NINE pounds of Checked Baggage . . .
Got a couple sideways-glances at Security, but it made it there without a hitch.
(I CAN tell you tho, that I didn't "miss it" on the return trip). |
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Location: Scotland | I'm already through 1 pack of Habanero pistachios and 2 packs of chilli mango. When you coming back? I was rehearsing with Phe and Lois this afternoon, opened a pack of chilli mango.... gone in minutes. |
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Location: NJ | Did we get you some of the candied ginger as well?? GoodStuff!!
I chopped some up & threw 'em into a saucepan of fresh orange juice & boiled it down t'make a sauce-base for some shrimp stir-fry . . . |
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Location: Scotland | yep, there are a coupla bags of ginger. hat sounds like it would work with fresh mango instead of the OJ. I know what I'm having for dinner tonight! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Paul, the cajon idea is brilliant. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Well I finally did the microphone upgrade.
Actually put two jacks in (one on each back corner) so that I could run dual mics for low and high frequencies if I decide I want to down the road.
Did a few minutes of recording....FANTASTIC!
Thanks again for the great idea Paul and for those of you with that extra bit of Christmas cash still laying around............
CALL AL AND BUY A CAJON!!!!
They are kick ass fun and sound great. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Bobbo also made me go out and buy a REAL tambourine today. Laughed at me when I told him I did not have one (he has 3!!)
Guess a cowbell is next ;)
With the new mic'd up cajon, the shakers and cabasa I had and now the new tambourine I am a percussion machine! :cool:
Cliff and I are shown playing the cajon on the March 2010 calendar page. |
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Location: Michigan | Those are so cool, if I could only keep a beat. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I've taken mine out several times when I know there's going to be a drummer in the house willing to sit in for a set or two. I use just one mic with a clip-on attachment. |
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Location: ms | Paul that looks like a Taylor behind the drums. |
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