Dude-

You will have to ask Bernard Perdie. OK ha ha ha

Ringo used stanoples for the paistes in the early days... 18'' and 20''. you can see them on some early photos since their bells are hugggeee UFO type things. There also is a rumor that he used 14'' Arbiter 602 hats on the Please Please Me album. Anyways, It is still under speculation but Ringo definitely used 15'' Avedis hats... really hi pitched magical pair. But some speculate he also had a 14'' pair. He owned a few Zildjian 18''s. the earlier ed sullivan one was a bit pingier than the "Help!" 18''.. the latter being another magical cymbal, I bet it wobbled. Ringo used a 20'' zyn with rivets all the way through A Hard Day's Night when he started using an Avedis 20''. My bet is that when he received his thermo gloss maple hollywood kit which were dated 1967 and sometimes used on the White Album, he recevied at least one 20'' Paiste 602 because it is obvious he uses a 602 on the rooftop, and he probably kept in with his 3 cymbal set up through abbey road.

By the way, i portray Ringo Starr in numerous tribute acts across the country so i've studied this stuff in detail.

Cool, that gives me a start......any idea on the weights? You know, Medium, medium-thin, thin?? Crash/rides, crashes, rides?

Based on pitch comparisons that I've done with 18" A's of known weight, I guesstimate that his 18" was somewhere in the lower 1400 gram range. But it seems to play like its thinner that. I surmise that would be due to a slightly flatter than average profile.

so 1400 grams would be the equivilent of what range? medium-thin, thin?

In the mid '50's that would have been considered to be a thin. I'm guessing that was probably the era for his, but I'd love to know for sure.

This is an old thread, but I'm bringing it back around. LOL. I've been wondering about his old hi hats. I'm thinking that his hats may have been the kind that pre-dated the new beats, but instead may have been the kind with similar matched weights on top and bottom from the earlier days (as opposed to the heavier bottom cymbal). Any thoughts?

by Stanoples for Paiste I think you mean Stambuls.

Concerning the Zyn cymbals, I thought they were the Super Zyn line. Anyone know for sure?

-Mark

At the drum show Bernard Perdie told me it was a Zyn.