Well, it was small but mighty. The cymbal meet in Seattle confirmed a lot of things I already felt about the Cymbal & Gong instruments, and gave me a lot of valuable information from some […]
Category: Cymbal & Gong
UPDATE: Seattle cymbal meet TODAY – Monday Dec. 13
UPDATE THRICE: The Seattle meet is TODAY, 5-9pm. If you’re in Seattle and want to come hang out with some great drummers, text me at 503.380.9259, and I’ll give you the details. UPDATE AGAIN: The meet […]
CYMBALISTIC: Second Line Chinese cymbal!
CYMBALISTIC: Oh, I also have for sale a sweet little 14″ Second Line Chinese cymbal— paper thin, at 550 grams. It took awhile for Cymbal & Gong to settle on a design for their Chinese cymbals, […]
CYMBALISTIC: New Turks are in!
UPDATE: Videos are up! CYMBALISTIC: I just got some great Cymbal & Gong custom Turks in stock— two 20″ jazz rides, two 17″ medium-thin crashes, one 22″ Special Half-Turk jazz ride. They’re quite interesting: the […]
CYMBALISTIC: 26″ Holy Grails, small swish cymbals
CYMBALISTIC: I payed a brief visit to Cymbal & Gong HQ (aka Tim’s house) the other day, and he had a few interesting things around: They’re making 26″ Holy Grail rides now. I got an […]
CYMBALISTIC: A lot of new cymbals!
CYMBALISTIC: I’ve just posted a bunch of new cymbals on the site— six Holy Grail Jazz Rides, 20-22″, a HG 16″ crash, a 20″ Janovar— inspired by Giant Beat, in B20 bronze— and a couple […]
Cymbalistic: 16″ Holy Grail thin/med. thin crashes
CYMBALISTIC: Someone was looking for a 16″ crash, so I went over to Cymbal & Gong HQ in southeast Portland and played some nice 16″ Holy Grail crashes. Check them out: The 949 gram cymbal I […]
CYMBALISTIC: a few new Holy Grails
I picked up a few more cymbals from Cymbal & Gong HQ last week, for sale on my Cymbalistic site. I’ll be posting those and adding video… shortly. Four Holy Grail series, two 20″ rides, […]
Cymbal sounds: Tony-like
I was rooting around in my music listening to ride cymbal sounds, and was surprised to find, in pretty short order, a number of things similar to Tony Williams’s famous cymbal— similar to it, or […]
CYMBALISTIC: Leon Collection specials coming soon!
NEWS: Cymbal & Gong is blowing out a little bit of old stock from their master smith’s personal line of cymbals, the Leon Collection, and so, my humble dealership CYMBALISTIC will soon be offering some big […]
Griener on stick selection
Here’s a forum comment by our friend Michael Griener in Berlin, which I wanted to preserve on this site. Michael is an excellent, very active drummer in Germany and throughout Central Europe, in jazz and […]
A great jazz ride cymbal
This question was asked on a drumming forum: “What makes a great ride cymbal?” I answered it for jazz cymbals specifically, because that’s what interests me, and that’s the music where the ride cymbal […]