CYMBALISTIC: I’ve just been doing a lot of cymbal-related business for people lately, and these are a couple of quick-and-dirty videos I made for that. Playing some different combinations of 20 and 22″ Extra Special Janavars, […]
Category: cymbals
CYMBALISTIC: Seattle meet wrap up!
CYMBALISTIC: We had a fun event at the Seattle Drum School on Monday evening. It was small but mighty, but we’re a small but mighty operation. Response to the cymbals was very enthusiastic, as always. Tim […]
CYMBALISTIC: SEATTLE – TONIGHT
CYMBALISTIC: Bumping this to the top of the site for tonight’s event— if you’re in the vicinity of Seattle, come on down, say hi, play some cymbals! SEATTLE: Monday, August 28th, 7:30pm – Seattle Drum […]
Cymbalistic: videos are up – event dates
CYMBALISTIC: Videos and descriptions of the new cymbals are up, check them out at Cymbalistic. I’m putting a lot of ears on them ahead of upcoming events in Seattle and Germany (see below), so many/most/all […]
CYMBALISTIC: cymbal day
CYMBALISTIC: I went to Cymbal & Gong HQ yesterday and played a lot of great cymbals. Picking out the “best” ones to sell on my Cymbalistic site is really a game of inches. Someone else […]
CYMBALISTIC: Cymbals are in!
CYMBALISTIC: I’ve just been informed that Cymbal & Gong has just received a big shipment of over 100 new cymbals, including 18, 20, and 22″ Turks, and a lot of other good stuff. This is […]
CYMBALISTIC: 20 BLOW-OUT
5/26 UPDATE: OK gang, the special is OVER, but, happily, the cymbals are still a tremendous bargain considering that a) they’re great, b) you’ll use them forever, c) they’re not that expensive to begin with! By […]
CYMBALISTIC: videos are up!
4/24 UPDATE: Bumping this— I have the other two 22″ Extra Special Janavars now— I just played them and, yeah, I’m not hyping them, they’re great. I may keep one for myself, my birthday is […]
CYMBALISTIC: New cymbals are in!
I just picked up a small order of cymbals from Cymbal & Gong, videos for which will be coming at the end of the week. There’s some very interesting stuff— here are my first impressions […]
Cymbal size vibe war!
Photo stolen from the cover of The Cymbal Book by Hugo Pinksterboer, which you should own. At last, the definitive guide to the vibes we all get from the various sizes of cymbals. I don’t know why […]
Hey, buy stuff
Two pieces of gear-buying news: GET SNARE DRUMSMy friend and student Bill W. owns a bunch of great snare drums, and is letting some of them go on Reverb. He’s got a 60s Gretsch Progressive […]
Cymbalistic: little cymbal day
CYMBALISTIC: Yesterday afternoon I went to Cymbal & Gong HQ to pick out a few things. I needed to pick out a 22″ 11th Anniversary ride— an Elvin Jones tribute cymbal— for someone. They took the middle […]