Description
Cajon di Vårby: Features
Snare Cajon with Vårby viking engravings.
Instrument with structure in solid Fir, back face and tapa (front) in Birch plywood. The Birch plywood is a stable material that is strong and rigid but responds well to the musician's strokes, it emphasizes low frequencies and, combined with the solid Fir wood structure, permits to realizare an instrument with a powerful, warm voice, with deep and low bass frequencies, enriched by the metallic sounds of the snare wires. Its mechanical characteristics permit to use it with thin thickness, different for tapa and back face, to exploit and emphasize the most of sound and structural qualities.
The Cajon Snare model is equipped with metal snare wires that give the instrument a more modern sound, rich in tonal shades, and allow to work with an extraordinary extension of differentiated sounds.
The instrument is supplied pre-calibrated but it is possibile to rebalance or modify the internal regulation of the pressure of the snare wires to optimize the reaction and the influence on percussion to suit every needs or personal tastes.
The instinctivity of the approach to the instrument and its virtuosic potential, make the Cajon suitable both for the beginner or percussion amateur and for the professional; as well as being a good alternative to a drum set or more bulky percussions (not only for buskers but also more formal contexts), the Cajon is an instrument with a great personality, able, in right hands, to create complex and engaging rhythmic expressions.
Decoration
The decorative engraving in the center of the tapa reproduces a Viking pendant belonging to the Vårby Treasure, an exceptional treasure of mid tenth century found in Sweden in the second half of 1800. It represents two twin beasts, intertwined between their own coils, and belongs to a transition artistic period. For this, it shows typical characteristics of Nordic style named Borre (850-950 A.D.) as the prehensile paws, and of the style named Jelling (900-975 A.D.), as the ribbon-like bodies of the intertwined beasts.
