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Vintage cymbals summed-up (input please!)
I have a set of 13" hi-hats. To add to your list UFIP and Zanchi. They were making cymbals back into the late 40's at least. UFIP is a comp...
13 years agoCutting down a cymbal...
one other note here. when starting the cut, you come into the cymbal at a very oblique angle, slowly cutting towards your scribed circle-----kind of l...
13 years agoUltimate Cymbal Question-
DIRIL......( not Murat Diril-that's a cousin I think and I don't know much about them). This is a direct lineage of initially, artisans but subsequent...
13 years agosonor question
From OddBall...
13 years agoCutting down a cymbal...
Just google aviation snips. The basic format is the same for all of them with just different angles and or reverse offsets on some. Wiss is the com...
13 years agoRodjian Roth
I picked one up recently. It's a 19"----actually 480mm, a little under 19". All I know is the little I have heard or read -------that they are East G...
13 years agoMIJs in a hipster band
From surfcollector...
13 years agoJazz left side rides...thick or thin?
I've gotten thicker over the years but when I was thinner I played what I could afford. Now that I am thicker( not my wallet mind you---leave that to...
13 years agoRodjian Roth
Does anyone here know anything about these cymbals?
13 years agoKentucky Fried Chicken MIJ WMP??
Funny how musical instruments pop up in commercials or ads every now and then. Usually it's comic but then advertising is increasingly going standup....
13 years agoCutting down a cymbal...
Make sure you cut just a little outside of your described circle and that you buy snips that are for the direction you want to cut. There are left and...
13 years agoCutting down a cymbal...
I have never cut down a cymbal for my own use but I have done it about 10 times for people who have asked me. Each one has been severely damaged and i...
13 years agoKentucky Fried Chicken MIJ WMP??
couldn't get the video but this isn't a joke about drumsticks is it?
13 years agosonor question
This snare is metric too. 13 13/16" or around 352 mm. The standard plastic heads work on this as well as the tenor tom because the Sonor counterhoops...
13 years agosonor question
.... the mystery continues. I am dating my kit based on certain features that seem to have shown up on Sonor drums over time. Magnus' kit is clearly o...
13 years ago