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Beginners sometimes use this technique for another reason entirely: The mounting bolt may not be long enough to allow an extra felt, or they may simply not have bought a felt when buying their first splash. Unfortunately, the metal to metal contact and the playing of the upturned splash rim both decrease the life of the cymbal, particularly at the hands of a beginner.
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They are available individually or, more recently, in sets of two or three, including larger cymbals intended primarily as the lower cymbal or cymbals. These sets have provided new sounds but have not replaced the established technique of using a china, crash or another splash as the upper cymbal of
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Piggybacking is a method of mounting a splash cymbal, mostly restricted to small splashes, by simply placing it inverted above another cymbal, with which it shares the mounting bolt and its sheath, washers if used and wingnut. A spacing felt is normally used to separate the cymbals, serving as the
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between the bells of the two cymbals, to eliminate any direct contact between the cymbals and retain the tone of each. However the slight contact between the bells if the extra felt is not used affects the tone of each cymbal only subtly, and some drummers like the tonal connection that results.
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accent. For their size, they are hit relatively hard to produce a quick attack and decay. They tend to have little taper in order to provide the necessary strength for this, the bell being approximately the same thickness as the rim, resulting in limited richness of tone.
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Exposes the rim to the stick in a way that the designer did not intend, often leading to damage. Many splashes have a relatively thick rim for their size, and can withstand a stroke that would break a crash cymbal, but thin splashes cannot generally be mounted bell
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Several other types that are now regarded as splash cymbals, such as bell and salsa cymbals, have more quietly been added to the kits of leading drummers and to the catalogues of major cymbal manufacturers over the years. Today much of the color of an extended
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and others, originally using a china splash as the upper cymbal. Portnoy mounted both cymbals bell up, with no spacing felt, to maximize contact between them, and choosing cymbals of sufficiently different profile to ensure that the contact was not enough to
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Many china splash cymbals and some bell cymbals are designed to be mounted bell down, and are particularly suited to piggyback mounting. Other splash cymbals, however, are very rarely mounted bell down except when piggybacked.
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with the upper cymbal serving as a single large jangle. The exact effect is dependent on the tension on the mounting bolt, and with some combinations can be varied from a very short crunch to a much longer buzz.
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Restricts adjustment of the damping of either cymbal. The mounting bolt tension and the size of one felt are the same for both cymbals, as the mounting bolt, wingnut and this felt are all shared between
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423:Thin splash
347:ride cymbal
327:terminology
251:Traditional
139:playing in
89:Thin splash
71:Rock splash
1426:Categories
1381:Drum stick
1286:Wood block
1261:Tambourine
1251:Snare drum
1121:Vibraphone
857:References
704:Dave Weckl
665:wood block
554:snare drum
522:Examples:
372:Examples:
335:mini china
316:China type
282:syncopated
271:Gene Krupa
212:Dave Weckl
182:Gene Krupa
141:The Police
126:Gene Krupa
1241:Mark tree
1206:Castanets
1181:Bass drum
1126:Xylophone
1111:Tubaphone
747:see above
681:see above
663:and/or a
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436:drumstick
428:B20 alloy
409:Example:
359:Rocktagon
1330:Drum kit
1281:Triangle
1276:Timbales
1149:Steelpan
1139:Handbell
1091:Crotales
1086:Carillon
793:Lighter
759:stacking
671:Stacking
649:stacking
564:rhythms.
558:timbales
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164:drum kit
149:drumming
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1432:Cymbals
1314:Octapad
1266:Tam-tam
1236:Maracas
1226:Cymbals
1221:Cowbell
1186:Bodhrán
1159:Timpani
1144:Handpan
1101:Marimba
661:cowbell
506:cymbals
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112:History
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1231:Djembe
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692:hi-hat
575:stand.
497:Stacks
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309:Saluda
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145:Paiste
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1369:Other
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1246:Parai
1216:Conga
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