During that Washington residency one of the students asked me for a recommendation on an inexpensive jazz cymbal. It’s not really a budget category of cymbals, and I didn’t have a great answer for him. […]
Category: shopping
Cymbalistic: new Reverb store!
CYMBALISTIC: I finally got around to setting up a Reverb store for Cymbalistic, my cymbal site, for those who wish to buy that way. It’s functional now; I’ll be adding the remaining cymbals I have […]
The state of the cheap real cymbal market
No, no, no True to my whiplash self-contradiction form, I’m following up my “THERE’S TOO MUCH PRODUCT INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET” rant with a dense informational post about shopping for cheap cymbals on the internet. […]
Sidebar: Shopping in the YouTube age
Continuing a particular aspect of that why I hate videos post: information paralysis. It hits me whenever I have to buy camera equipment, or electronics, or computer related products. It’s always a manic descent into the […]
Would somebody please buy these drums?
…before I have a moment of weakness and do something stupid? This set of 70s Sonor Phonics in all the right sizes has been on eBay for a couple of months now, for a pretty […]
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 […]
USPS Priority rules, USPS Priority rules, USPS Priority rules
Request it. Have I ever mentioned that shipping by USPS Priority rules? It just smokes the private sector competition. I just received a pre-serial 17″ Paiste 602 ride (a funny little cymbal) shipped from Hopkins, […]