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Greg....I am not a huge fan of Rosewood, its always too soft looking for me, but those look incredible. Are they really that dark?

Man, Dat be a lotta cymbals! More than 4 and I get distracted and confused.
I noticed the wedge cut out on one on the floor in the b/g, 3rd pic. Crack treatment I presume. Did that alter the sound? ... for better or worse?

What's that Bosphorus with dimples?

They are darker than that, Kel. The red in the tungsten light and the annoying NIkon color card conspire to make them lighter and redder than they are. The impression is of a very dark wood. This is close, illuminated by indirect sunlight:

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I generally like two crashes, two chinas (one hard, sharp and abrupt, one soft, full and long) and one big crash-able ride. The cymbals in the photo represent a some old and some new, and they are all jockeying for position.
I noted the crack, took the dynafile to it, and was very pleased it still sounded good after major surgery, and that was... egads, at least fifteen years ago. A 602 China did not fare so well; notched it once and it cracked again on the opposite side. Notched it again, and it is now no good for anything but keeping the squirrels out of my bird feeder.



The dimpled cymbal is Bosphorus Stanton Moore Trash Crash. Sort of like an in-between China, soft but with a quick decay. Wouldn't take it and the other two Chinas out together.

The issue of confusion depends a lot on what sort of gig it is. Playing pick-up gigs, I would tend to take fewer drums and cymbals, to keep the confusion down. But highly rehearsed projects get more drums and cymbals, because they have purpose even if just once in the repertoire.

I am very careful not to develop uses for things like tympani - and I own an ancient pair - lest I be overwhelmed by the law of diminishing returns.

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yeah, carrying lots of percussion around is for the birds

So how do you like the smash crash? anything like a crash of doom or more like a low washy china?

Trash Crash, not Smash Crash. Can you believe I even wrote that?

Don't know the crash of doom... although I have sensed its presence at one time or another.

Low, washy Chinas, as I think of them, tend to have long sustain. Trash Crash has a similar attack and character with a fairly quick decay comparatively, and can be ridden (quietly) with a variety of stick sounds coming from the dimples or ridges.

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That is gorgeous Greg.
The one drum up close could almost pass for ebony.

Thanks, Kel. They are about the same overall shade as ebony (same impression in a room), without the ponderously intense repetition of ebony's two-color system.

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