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 […]
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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 […]
CYMBALISTIC: A lot of new cymbals!
CYMBALISTIC: I’ve just posted a bunch of new cymbals on the site— six Holy Grail Jazz Rides, 20-22″, a HG 16″ crash, a 20″ Janovar— inspired by Giant Beat, in B20 bronze— and a couple […]
Cymbalistic: 16″ Holy Grail thin/med. thin crashes
CYMBALISTIC: Someone was looking for a 16″ crash, so I went over to Cymbal & Gong HQ in southeast Portland and played some nice 16″ Holy Grail crashes. Check them out: The 949 gram cymbal I […]