My Percussion Kit as seen from the side
My Percussion Kit as seen from the back
This is my percussion kit as it is presently configured.
- On the left of the throne is my djembe and moving clock-wise;
- The high-hat with mic mixer on the rack below it
- Stand with splash, cowbells, tuned brass bells, wood (well plastic) block
- Tambourine played with foot pedal
- Percussion table with two bongo cajons (one plain, the other flamenco) and assorted shakers
- In front of the throne is the heart of my kit, a Homero Chavez cajon
- Not shown are 4 PZM mics and a Roland KC-550, a 150 amp amplifier which gives me the option of amplifying my entire kit.
What you are seeing in the picture is just the instruments that I would normally be gigging with. I own just about every percussion instrument available. Besides a large assortment of hand drums, I have lots of different shakers, rattles, gourds, tambourines, chimes, whistles, etc, etc. so I am pretty much able to come up with the right instrument for that particularly special sound.
The Homero cajon is a very unique instrument. Unlike all other cajons that you must sit on to play. Homero Chavez, master percussionist, the current president of the So. Cal. Percussion Society, my teacher and mentor, invented this state of the art cajon. He ingeniously added legs and rotated the box 45 degrees so that it can be played while sitting on a drum throne. This leaves the feet available to play other things like high-hats, bells and tambourines.
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November 23rd, 2010
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