Making videos of some new cymbals for sale today, so it’s a good time post this thing that has been sitting in my drafts folder for some months: In selling these fantastic Cymbal & Gong […]
Category: cymbals
CYMBALISTIC: Cymbal day, 10/4/19
UPDATE: Oops, I’m an idiot— I uploaded the unedited video from the meeting, which has lots of inane conversation on it in between playing cymbals. Below is the correct video, with times matching the cues […]
CYMBALISTIC: Cymbal day today – Seattle event coming up
At the Cymbal & Gong foundry in Istanbul UPDATE: Found some really great Holy Grails— 22″ and 20″ (x2) jazz rides, 17″ (x2) and 18″ crashes! Videos coming soon. A couple of cymbal-related items: • […]
A balanced attitude about cymbals
Some thoughts on cymbals; sound, quality of instruments, and how that relates to playing music. We want to have nice instruments and get a great sound, but, frankly, it is not all-important. Hopefully here we’ll […]
CYMBAL OF THE MINIT: 20″ Leon Collection Ride – “Serge” – 1600g
A new recurring item, featuring individual cymbals available on my Cymbalistic site. Mainly I sell CYMBAL & GONG cymbals; the Leon Collection cymbals are a special line made by C&G’s master cymbal smith. They’re generally […]
Holy Grail
A video shared by Sebastian Merk, a great drummer living in Berlin, who teaches at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden. He’s playing a 20″ Holy Grail jazz ride by Cymbal […]
CYMBALISTIC: Cymbal videos up
Individual videos of our new cymbals are up. Picking out cymbals in a storage room at Cymbal & Gong HQ is not really an optimal acoustical situation, so when I get them to my studio […]
CYMBALISTIC: Cymbal day video
UPDATE: Bumping this to the top— there are a couple of newer posts below this… Video of my visit to Cymbal & Gong headquarters in southeast Portland, with company owner Tim Ennis, selecting cymbals for […]
Cymbal day TODAY
CYMBALISTIC: FYI, I will be visiting Cymbal & Gong HQ today and picking out cymbals. If you are looking for anything special, feel free to send a text message at (503)380-9259 (USA) until about 2:30pm […]
CYMBAL DAY on Friday
THIS FRIDAY: I’ll be visiting Cymbal & Gong HQ to select cymbals for sale on my Cymbalistic site. Many will be for my upcoming Germany sales trip (June 4-12, Berlin/Dresden/Munich), but if you need a […]
June Germany dates
CYMBALISTIC NEWS: We will be bringing Cymbal & Gong brand cymbals to Germany again in June! Dates are June 4-12, 2019, and we will come to Berlin, Dresden, and Munich. The purpose of the tour is […]
CYMBALISTIC: Describing cymbal sounds
This is a new post on the Cymbalistic blog. I do post good stuff there (I think) which I don’t share on this blog, so I encourage you do scroll through and check in regularly. […]