NO I’m getting a little punchy from working on this new book, so I just started writing rules about gear. Consider the following to be LEGALLY BINDING. Failure to comply may result in a SUBSTANTIAL […]
Category: gear
CYMBALISTIC: New cymbals— Holy Grails and flats!
In Istanbul, manufacturing Cymbal & Gong cymbals. I’ve just posted videos for a new batch of cymbals, handmade in Turkey by Cymbal & Gong, personally selected by me for awesomeness in the purpose of playing […]
Amazingness in cymbals
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 […]
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 […]
I’m back
As you know, I just made another cymbal demo-and-delivery tour to Germany, with a side visit to Istanbul to meet Cymbal & Gong’s production team… which is just a bunch of guys working in a […]
Lots of action
Details at cymbalistic.com UPDATE 2: Had a great time at the Celebration of the Drum event on Wednesday. A really nice lady, a student of Seattle drummer Matt Jorgensen, won the 24″ Holy Grail, which […]
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 […]