The ear is a sensitive mechanism that responds to the finest vibrations. Even inaudible frequencies are clocked by the body via sensory cells in the stomach and skin. All impressions are processed in your brain into a single experience. You can feel excellent sound with all your senses: this is the Schlagwerk Sound Experience.
The production already belongs to the holistic experience: Selection, storage and processing of our woods are subject to the strictest criteria. During the construction, we rethink every instrument and in our daily work we feel every edge and fibre with passion. Our lived experience is part of the Schlagwerk Sound.
Excel yourself: When you play a Schlagwerk instrument, your environment becomes your resonator. It maximizes your performance and makes your sound experience even more intense.
The Sound-Experience label marks the unique sound characteristics of Schlagwerk instruments. It stands for the expertise inherent in all our products and the special sensation you experience while playing and hearing it. In short: It describes the sense of delight that is triggered by the Schlagwerk Sound. And by the outstanding and appealing look you do connect instantly that it sounds great too.
The "S" stands for Schlagwerk and for perfect sound. The curved letter is also a new symbol for the sound waves that can already be seen in the Schlagwerk company logo.
The bright colours stand for the versatility of our instruments, materials, working processes and, last but not least, our customers and musical possibilities. And despite the diversity, they fit together well, because they carry the Schlagwerk gene within them.
Our instruments are carefully handcrafted and played by hand: It is only through the use of hands that an instrument becomes a Sound Experience.
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made of multi-layered beech, produced in the CLM process
for typical cajon snare sound with rich bass foundation
hand-selected, on our proprietary fine layer SC6 substrate for very warm and dynamic sound
with spiral winding for rich and fast responding snare sound
for individual adjustment of the buzz behaviour
for additional sound effect and powerful bass due to solid wood reinforcing brace
for adjusting the string tension with integrated tuning key
Product shown: CP608
Cajon Fineline Dark Night
We only use high-quality materials from suppliers we have trusted for years. Birch, alder and beech are European woods of the highest quality, which combine an attractive appearance with low weight and the necessary strength. And if exotic hardwoods cannot be replaced, we only use free-trade wood from sustainable forestry.
In music, even subtle nuances in the way the music is played are audible, in the touch, the emotion or the skill of the player. Only a true enthusiast becomes an artist. We are just as virtuoso in production: we feel every detail and every irregularity. Every millimeter of wood is felt, tested, sanded and refined until a real work of art is created.
We create unique pieces in volumes: In years of development work, we have optimized various special machines for us and adapted them to our needs. This enables us to create instruments with consistently high perfection and quality - even in large quantities. This is how an industrial manufactory works by enhancing high-quality craftsmanship with advanced technology.
It is not enough just to use the best materials - their processing is essential. This is why we not simply use regular wood from our suppliers, but also manufacture our own panels: using our proprietary Cross-Laminating and Moulding process, we press interlaced, high-density fibreboards directly into their pre-finished form. But there are many other examples of how we optimize our instruments - and you can surely hear every single one of them.
Always all ears. Martin plays every single instrument before it leaves the workshop. He knows every subtlety in our sound conception, only the slightest deviation or discrepancy is recognized and the instrument is fine-tuned. Because one thing is guaranteed at this point: the real Schlagwerk sound
Our Percussion and effect instruments are shipped all over the world: To all of Europe, North and South America and Asia. But we don't just ship our carefully manufactured instruments to end customers, but to our selected and qualified network of specialist dealers. After all, the SCHLAGWERK SOUND EXPERIENCE also includes personal assistance and services such as testing the instruments before you buy them.
No one has shaped the company like founder Gerhard Priel. He is not only the inventor of the modern Cajon based on the classic Peruvian model. He also has the know-how to continually invent and further develop new instruments for world percussion. And he has the passion and the feeling for the decisive sound. Exactly the sound that touches people emotionally and makes up the SCHLAGWERK SOUND EXPERIENCE. Together with his development team, he is constantly creating new extraordinary cajons and other innovative percussion instruments such as the La Ola Drum or the SamJam Guitar Snare.
