CYMBALISTIC: Two more bargain used Cymbal & Gong cymbals came in. Both were lightly used by an endorser for a tour. A 24″ Holy Grail Jazz Ride “Vishal”, a lush, complex light ride, still […]
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CYMBALISTIC: more cymbals!
CYMBALISTIC: I just got a few more cymbals in stock, videos will be coming soon! [4/18 – videos are up!] • More of the very popular thin Turks! 18/20/22″ 4/18: I discovered a small defect […]
Cymbal sounds: Special Janavars
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 […]
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 […]
What kind of sticks do you use?
Addressing the classic drum clinic question once again. In 2019, under the sway of our friend in Berlin, Michael Griener, after about 10 years of using the Vic Firth SD-11 Slammer (a maple 5B) or […]
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 […]
Tom tom sizes rated!
The genesis of this post. Let’s do something dumb: critically assess the full range of tom tom sizes for goodness and badness. Reward the good, denigrate the bad, punish the weak and strange: 6″: A […]
Chip Stern plays Papa Jo’s drums
Papa Jo JonesPhoto by Rick Mattingly Item from writer Chip Stern, best known to me for conducting a lot of great interviews in Modern Drummer magazine, including one with Papa Jo Jones. He has a […]
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 […]