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Caixa de Guerra 12''x17 cm - galvanised steel sheet with 6 strings!A delicacy for fans of steel sheet sound!Shells made of steel sheet have more compound and less body sound, meaning that it sounds less metall-like and has less overtones than e.g. aluminium instruments. The price is a few additional gramms to carry and for sure are prettier caixas than this one. But: the sound is spectacular: crispy, dry, yummy.Special edition by IVSOM!As usual with all IVSOM instruments, the tension rods are screwed down perfectly flush with the fittings in the tension hoop. It only sticks out very little over the tension bracket on the side of the nuts. All important details such as a smoothed out rims for ideal skin fitting, string accommodation, tension rings, threads etc. are neatly manufactured in the usual good quality IVSOM manner. Amongst others, IVSOM provides the Samba school Mocidade Independente de Padre Miguel in Rio de Janeiro with his instruments. Being a mechanic and a caixa player, he disposes of ideal abilities for building good quality Samba instruments.

As Bossas do Mestre Maurão - selected Bossas (Paradinhas) for Samba Schools- a must for every BateriaPlay like the samba schools in Rio! Who doesn't dream of playing authentic breaks and sounding as if you are just entering the Pasarela. This collection of Samba beats is the first music book to focus on the transcription of the bossas (or paradinhas) - bateria breaks tuned to the current enredo. Bossas is a Portuguese word for the breaks that the baterias of the Samba schools play during the carnival in the Sambodrom in Rio de Janeiro.Book with 148 pages7 bossas1 Esquenta (67 bars)Each bossa is performed with a complete score for all instruments and the individual scores for each instrument. At the beginning of each part there is an indication of which part of the text contains the bossas, and in each bossa there is the name of the samba for which it was written.For 10 years Mestre Maurão Mestre de Bateria (First Musical Director of the Bateria) was in the following samba schools: Unidos do Viradouro, Academicos da Rocinha and Cubango. From 2011 to 2018, Mestre Maurão did not lose a single point for eight years for the schools in which he was Mestre de Bateria (which means that he received at least three highest grades, nota 10, from the four judges). And in 6 of these years he received the highest score of all judges. A great achievement due to his teaching methods and his ability to make each section of the instrument sound harmonious. Maurão also plays an important role in the creation and development of a new break style. They are larger and more complex, with the participation of all sections.YT Videos:Viradouro 2018:https://youtu.be/PTT7_obQDVEViradouro 2018 II:https://youtu.be/Kk-YqZ55sVQViradouro 2018 III:https://youtu.be/_vJkygoB0_QViradouro 2017:https://youtu.be/e8Y7-oMO57oCubango 2016:https://youtu.be/D6WQ23hWmWkCubango 2016 II:https://youtu.be/eE82DyqMhmACubango 2015:https://youtu.be/IwV8P-_JZAMEsquenta Rocinha:https://youtu.be/gzCDqSgG3Ck

Light-weight aluminium tamborim: 8 hooks, 50mm frame hight - ContemporaneaOne of our lightest tams: pleasant 50mm frame hight made of even aluminium with the bottim rim slightly curved to the inside. 100% bateria-qualified and on our bestseller list! The hardware is chromed, otherwise the design is kept simple, a very light instrument with top sound!