6/24 UPDATE: I just added two more 22″ Extra Special Janavars— at 1938 and 1950 grams they are very light weight, and handle it beautifully. As I’ve said, I’m very excited about the quality of […]
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 […]