Talk:Swish cymbal

Comments

This needs a picture.

This is largely from memory and oral history, and I hope it will develop. In particular:

• Dates of release of the original models, and sizes.

• Famous users and their setups (I think for example Carmine Appice had two big swishes at one stage, with and without rivets).

Andrewa 21:15, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Jargon etc

The second paragraph of this article reads like gobbledegook. There is no explanation for any of the (jargon) terms used. In addition, in all the articles on different types of cymbals is there a diagram of what the various parts are. (What's the "bell"?) Only someone extremely familiar with cymbal terminology and construction could ever make sense of this article, and that defeats the whole purpose, n'est ce pas? Nickrz (talk) 00:22, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Pas vrai de tout!

But agree that these technical terms should all be wikilinked on their first use, and that more diagrams are badly needed.

It's an article on a very specialised topic, of interest mainly to drummers and musicologists specialising in percussion. To them (us) it's already quite informative. Every drummer knows what a cymbal bell is, and by lesson nine or ten most of us have wasted spent so much time drooling over cymbal catalogs that we know what a bell cymbal is too. We may not know what a cheese bell is. We may not even know or care what that yellow stuff on pizza is called, just so long is it's there in quantity. But cymbals... (;-> Happy grooving. Andrewa (talk) 13:24, 26 July 2011 (UTC)