Here are the videos for those three Cymbal & Gong 22″ cymbals, which I picked out for my friend Jakob in Munich to hear. I don’t have gram weights for them, but the Holy Grail […]
Category: cymbals
Selecting cymbals
Cymbal & Gong cymbals at Revival Drums I want to give a little context for the late talk about cymbals; mainly, what I think is good and bad, and my thinking when hand-selecting Cymbal & […]
Cymbals news: 22s in stock, Germany trip
UPDATE: Video and playing notes about the 22s is here. News re: Cymbal & Gong cymbals As you may know by now, I’m getting into selling some cymbals through the site, made by Cymbal & […]
Rehearsal cymbals
this type of situation Everybody’s always looking for excuses to spend money on gear, so here’s a concept: rehearsal cymbals. We’ve all played rehearsals where the instrumentation and/or acoustics made it extremely difficult to play […]
Very occasional quote of the day: cymbal selection for bop
Roy Haynes talks about what cymbal used to go with what soloist in the 1940s: “I just liked the sound of a cymbal with the sax. It was cool with a trumpet, too. Back in […]
Holy Grail
At a recent gig: on the left is the 17″, on the right is the 20″ UPDATE: Since this was posted I became a C&G dealer myself; visit Cymbalistic.com to see what I have in […]
Cymbals for sale
A few cymbals for sale. They’re all nice, and I hate to part with them, but I’ve just got too many medium-heavy 20″ rides around, and for whatever reason these haven’t found their way into […]
Species of ride cymbal interpretation in jazz
Following up on George Collligan’s commentary on this subject: The way you play the cymbal pattern is really the center of your artistry as a jazz drummer, so let’s do a little survey of the […]
Some cymbals FS, too…
UPDATE: Pictures added! It looks like the Bosphorus and the Zildjian 16″ may be sold— just waiting to complete that sale. While we’re at it I’m going to need to sell some cymbals. Here’s what I’m […]
There’s no excuse at all for buying student cymbals any more
Unless you just live for peeling away factory packaging, or have some kind of sick virginity fetish. Following up on my previous piece on this subject— to get good, cheap cymbals now, all you have […]
VOQOTD: choosing cymbals
I’d go to the bin, I’d get two fourteens, I’d go to the eighteen bin, get an eighteen, then I’d go to the twenty bin and get a twenty, and that was that—none of that […]
A few new vintage Paistes
I guess the 80’s is vintage now. In the past few years I’ve been rebuilding my cymbal collection, after ruthlessly disposing of a lot of things during a lean patch, and have largely been focusing […]