CYMBALISTIC: OK, I’ve been remiss, letting the new cymbals pile up without making new videos, so here are eight of them all at once. Turkish-style Holy Grails, and Extra Special Janavars, mostly 20s, a 21, […]
Category: cymbal sounds
CYMBALISTIC: new cymbals in!
CYMBALISTIC: All right, videos are up for seven new cymbals. As I mentioned recently, I’m very excited about the way the cymbals have been trending— they vary slightly from batch to batch, and change a […]
CYMBALISTIC: developments
CYMBALISTIC: An interesting part of being a very small cymbal company, like Cymbal & Gong, is that there is some variance in the product over time. Day to day there may different guys at the […]
CYMBALISTIC: new cymbals in!
CYMBALISTIC: A fresh round of cymbals is in— it’s been a rather slow year, so I haven’t been getting a ton of new stock. You should be using these things. Cymbals. Made by Cymbal & Gong. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Hunting the Tony cymbal
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 […]
Cymbal sounds: Art Taylor – Sonny’s Crib
This is a post I wrote about Art Taylor’s cymbals, for the Cymbalistic site blog, plus a few added comments for this site: Here is Art Taylor playing a very interesting ride cymbal that reminds […]