Cymbal, and player, and stick, and microphone. UPDATE: It took a little longer than I thought, but the cymbal “Eloi” mentioned later in the piece has been sold. I’m sure there will be others. In […]
Category: Cymbal & Gong
CYMBALISTIC: 18s, hihats
A few new Cymbal & Gong cymbals in stock, hand selected by me: In addition to the usual Holy Grail series, there are a couple from the American Artist series, which are “A-type” cymbals with […]
CYMBALISTIC: Two new 22″ rides in stock!
CYMBALISTIC news: Thanks to a very successful Germany trip in December, stock of cymbals on hand is a little skimpy right now, but we do have a couple of new 22″ A-type rides available— one […]
Year end Cymbal & Gong sale BASH BLOWOUT
Hey, let’s see if I can blow out some of my remaining stock of cymbals before the end of the year. Remember, you can deduct December purchases on your looming 2018 taxes. It would be […]
A balanced attitude about cymbals
There’s a quote from Elvin Jones where he described his process of selecting cymbals: he would go to the Gretsch warehouse in Brooklyn where the imported K. Zildjians were kept, and he would grab a […]
Back from tour
school hang in Dresden I’m back from Germany and am deep in the throes of jet lag and a bad cold, and will resume normal posting soon. I had a really great time meeting, hanging […]
Another trip to Cymbal & Gong
A few videos from a quick visit with Tim Ennis at Cymbal & Gong headquarters yesterday, labeling and stamping cymbals, and picking out some Holy Grail and Mersey Beat cymbals for our demo tour in […]
Cymbals are IN
UPDATE: Videos for most individual cymbals are now on YouTube, including the Swish and Krut. Videos for more Holy Grail cymbals coming tomorrow. Amazing day Friday picking out cymbals at Cymbal & Gong headquarters here […]
CYMBALISTIC is on line
OK, it’s time to go public with this sucker: CYMBALISTIC, my new site retailing Cymbal & Gong cymbals is now on line. In case you hadn’t heard, Cymbal & Gong is a Portland company which […]
Cymbal & Gong and me
Public service announcement: You’re going to have to put up with a lot of ranting about cymbals in coming weeks and months. I’m in the process of developing a web site for selling Cymbal & Gong […]
Three Cymbal & Gong 22s
Here are the videos for those three Cymbal & Gong 22″ cymbals, which I picked out for my friend Jakob in Munich to hear. I don’t have gram weights for them, but the Holy Grail […]
Selecting cymbals
Cymbal & Gong cymbals at Revival Drums I want to give a little context for the late talk about cymbals; mainly, what I think is good and bad, and my thinking when hand-selecting Cymbal & […]