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 […]

Jazz stick roundup

these 5Bs are kind of like One thing my German friends made me realize is that I use really big friggin’ sticks. For many years I’ve used one stick: the Vic Firth SD-11 Slammer. It’s […]

A minor rant: Elvin’s 18

In Elvin Jones’s 1982 Modern Drummer interview, Rick Mattingly asked him about his use of an 18″ bass drum: RM: I’ve heard various explanations of why jazz drummers started using 18″ bass drums. Some people […]