I just picked up a small order of cymbals from Cymbal & Gong, videos for which will be coming at the end of the week. There’s some very interesting stuff— here are my first impressions […]
Category: cymbals
Cymbal size vibe war!
Photo stolen from the cover of The Cymbal Book by Hugo Pinksterboer, which you should own. At last, the definitive guide to the vibes we all get from the various sizes of cymbals. I don’t know why […]
Hey, buy stuff
Two pieces of gear-buying news: GET SNARE DRUMSMy friend and student Bill W. owns a bunch of great snare drums, and is letting some of them go on Reverb. He’s got a 60s Gretsch Progressive […]
Cymbalistic: little cymbal day
CYMBALISTIC: Yesterday afternoon I went to Cymbal & Gong HQ to pick out a few things. I needed to pick out a 22″ 11th Anniversary ride— an Elvin Jones tribute cymbal— for someone. They took the middle […]
CYMBALISTIC: Cymbal day!
UPDATE: Creating my order right now— I’ll be picking up cymbals probably on Monday the 7th, with new listings with videos coming Monday or Tuesday. I’ll be getting the Extra Special Janavars, some Special Janavars […]
CYMBALISTIC: New cymbal day Monday!
CYMBALISTIC: OK, the new shipment of Cymbal & Gong cymbals has finally arrived— including the Extra Special Janavar prototypes I had them make: three 20″ Janavar crash-rides with K-type hammering and lathing. As you hear […]
Those sub-pro cymbals
Let’s talk about an aspect of that recent cheap cymbals post: mid-line cymbals— sub-pro, “intermediate”, whatever, from the last 50-60 years. Real or almost-real cymbals, not complete dog food, where we may stand a chance […]
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. […]
Alejian cymbals
I made an interesting purchase at that Chehalis, Washington drummer swap meet— an 18″ Alejian brand cymbal. At 1368 grams, it would be categorized as approximately a medium thin crash, maybe a crash-ride— it acts […]