Talking about the Special Janavar cymbals I mentioned in my last cymbal post— it’s a new series I’m selling through my Cymbalistic site, and I’m really excited about them. I want one of these for […]
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CYMBALISTIC: heads up
UPDATE: All the videos are up! CYMBALISTIC: Just letting everyone know, the latest shipment from Turkey has been delayed YET AGAIN— so we won’t be seeing a big new batch of cymbals until later in […]
CYMBALISTIC: Get ’em while they’re hot
CYMBALISTIC: Service announcement— cymbal business has really been cooking this winter, so if you have your eye on any of the wonderful Cymbal & Gong cymbals on my Cymbalistic site, it’s best to act fairly […]
CYMBALISTIC: New Holy Grails and more!
CYMBALISTIC: New Holy Grails are in! My stock was getting pretty depleted after a wild couple of weeks of sales. I got some big thin jazz cymbals, if anybody needs a new main axe— though […]
Seattle meet wrap-up
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 […]
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 […]