It has been three or four hundred years since the birth of the cajon. This percussion music appeared in history in the late 18th century, when the people of Africa created instruments.

And when it comes to Africa, most of friends will think of another percussion music that must be the African Drum, an instrument that dates back to the 13th century and race back to 500 A.D.

So the question is, since they are all hand-clapped instruments, and African drums have a longer and more sacred history, why are they derived from cajon? After all, the difference is not too big in the public sense. In other words, why did African nations suddenly become less enthusiastic about the lofty African drums and to a certain extent substitute for their derivatives?

GECKO Musical Instrument Brand, as a professional manufacturer in China, is very familiar with the history of this industry. On this topic, we feel that it is necessary for those friends who are interested in musical instrument history to understand.

One thing to understand is that African drums have always been sacred in the hearts of African nations. Why did they invent the cajon drum box ? This goes back to the late eighteenth Century.

In the late eighteenth Century, African slave trade began to prevails among African American slaves in Peru. And in this century's history of blood and tears, cajon was born. During the Spanish colonial period, a large number of West and Central African people were trafficked to America as slaves. Negroes had no drums to play on their ships or port cities to America, they had to play in boxes loaded with fish or cargo. This was the original form of the cajon.

In the harsh environment of the time, the settlers sold and traded were not allowed the blacks to carry any personal belongings, but the African nation was a nation that loved music, and music could, to a certain extent, alleviate the suffering of the soul. As a result, blacks used various kinds of wooden goods such as containers instead of African drums, gave birth to another percussion - cajon, domestic commonly called box drum.

By the end of the 19th century, people began to improve cajon, through the transformation of wood material and shape, to make cajon better and more diversified sound. cajon are rich in timbre, suitable for Solo and for various styles of music accompaniment, in terms of difficulty, it is much simpler than African drums and easy to start, so its market is growing.

Nowadays, cajon is famous all over the world, and there has famous brands both at home and abroad. GECKO gecko brand is a well-known representative of the domestic brand of Gecko, a professional manufacturer that only produces cajon. It has obtained the international trademark registration certificate of 28 countries in the United States and Europe. It also cooperates with many well-known foreign brands OEM and authorizes 1680 GECKO gecko brand agents. And holds dozens of original design product patent certificates.

Victor Brussels