Caja, Drum similar to a tambora, it's one of the three main or traditional instruments of the Vallenato music. Caja means box in Spanish, slang adopted to knickname this drum. Tambora, as a place name, may refer to: Mount Tambora, a volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa. ... Vallenato is, along with cumbia , the most popular folk music of Colombia. ...
Origins
African Slaves brought by the Spanish colonizers came along with tamboras to what is now northeastern Colombia probably derived from the [[Congolese Makuta drums. Tamboras were first adopted by the Cumbia musical genre and later introduced to Vallenato music. With the advancement of technology new make and models developed the traditional drum into an instrument similar in made to a congas drum. Cumbia is originally a Colombian folk dance and dance music and is Colombias representative national dance and music along with vallenato. ... Vallenato is, along with cumbia , the most popular folk music of Colombia. ... Conga is a drum, a type of music, and a type of dance (Conga Line). ...
Parts
Traditional: Elliptic cylinder made out of wood and a cow skin (drumhead) stretched over the top wider opening and tighten with rustic ropes, aproximately 12 inches of height. A drumhead is a membrane stretched over one or both of the open ends of a drum. ...
Modern Version: similar in made to a congas drum but shorter in height (aprox. 12 inches). Made out of the same wood base but no ropes are used to stretch and hold the skin, instead a metal frame bolted to the wooden base is used to hold the animal skin or X-ray photo (radiograph) made skin. Conga is a drum, a type of music, and a type of dance (Conga Line). ...
Playing the Caja
Vallenato has four different rhythms to which the caja adapts to mark the base key: Rubbing and strucking with hand palms.
The Area Nacional de Recreación Cajas is a national park in the highlands of Ecuador.
The El Cajas National Park is home to a large variety of animals, some of which are endemic or highly endangered.
Among the most prominent are the South American Condor, of which only 80 remain throughout all Ecuador; the Curiquinga, a large fl and white raptor, and the largest hummingbird of the world who lives only on agave flowers.
After the cajas were taken over, and with the banks then working toward the legitimate goal of maximizing profit, they began to close all the offices in unprofitable areas, and people without collateral as a guarantee were no longer given loans.
What sets the Spanish cajas apart from those of the rest of the world is that they compete ferociously amongst themselves, and at the same time, cooperate over these instruments of financial war.
When the Minister of Finance demonstrated how the Spanish banking system worked and the importance the cajas had, plus the relative importance of the banks that were functioning in Latin America, the IMF set aside their concerns concerning the Spanish economy.
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