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| + | === China Gongs === | ||
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| + | '''Introduction:''' 1992<font color=blue><sup>4</sup></font color=blue> - ?<br> | ||
| + | '''Background:''' Designed to provide a gong-like sound in an easily positioned and less expensive instrument.<font color=blue><sup>4</sup></font color=blue><br> | ||
| + | '''Innovation:''' <br> | ||
| + | '''Alloy:''' <br> | ||
| + | '''Quality:''' Professional<br> | ||
| + | '''Production:''' <br> | ||
| + | '''Applications:'''<br> | ||
| + | '''Users:''' <br> | ||
| + | '''Sound:''' Mellow, dark and warm, with an absence of trashiness.<font color=blue><sup>4</sup></font color=blue><br> | ||
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| + | *'''China Gong - [[Sabian 14" China Gong|14"]] [[Sabian 16" China Gong|16"]] [[Sabian 18" China Gong|18"]] [[Sabian 20" China Gong|20"]] [[Sabian 22" China Gong|22"]] | ||
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=== Chinese Gongs === | === Chinese Gongs === | ||
[[file:Sabian 34" Chinese Gong 1.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Chinese Gong]] | [[file:Sabian 34" Chinese Gong 1.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Chinese Gong]] | ||
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<font color=blue><sup>2</sup></font color=blue> Sabian Cymbal and Sound Guide 2009<br> | <font color=blue><sup>2</sup></font color=blue> Sabian Cymbal and Sound Guide 2009<br> | ||
<font color=blue><sup>3</sup></font color=blue> Sabian New For '98 brochure<br> | <font color=blue><sup>3</sup></font color=blue> Sabian New For '98 brochure<br> | ||
| + | <font color=blue><sup>4</sup></font color=blue><br> "New and Notable", Modern Drummer, August 1992, p.124<br> | ||
Revision as of 01:01, 17 March 2025
Contents
China Gongs
Introduction: 19924 - ?
Background: Designed to provide a gong-like sound in an easily positioned and less expensive instrument.4
Innovation:
Alloy:
Quality: Professional
Production:
Applications:
Users:
Sound: Mellow, dark and warm, with an absence of trashiness.4
Chinese Gongs
Introduction: ?
Background:
Innovation:
Alloy:
Quality: Professional
Production:
Applications:
Users:
Sound: Traditionally hammered for prized ”oriental” sound, produces a definite primary impact response followed by an outpouring of raw, dark overtones. Full sounding.1
Radia Gongs
Introduction: 1998
Background:
Innovation:
Alloy:
Quality: Professional
Production:
Applications:
Users:
Sound:
Symphonic Gongs
Introduction: 19983
Background:
Innovation:
Alloy:
Quality: Professional
Production:
Applications:
Users:
Sound: Produces a powerful and sturdy fundamental note which is enhanced and softened by harmonic overtones, creating a full, warm and round response. Very tonal.1
Turkish Gongs
Introduction: 1986
Background:
Innovation:
Alloy:
Quality: Professional
Production:
Applications:
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Sound:
Wind Gongs
Introduction: ?
Background:
Innovation:
Alloy:
Quality: Professional
Production:
Applications:
Users:
Sound: With hand hammered surface and raw, unlathed center, this flat-design gong speaks quickly, with dark, splashy sounds. 2
- Wind Gong - 22"
Zodiac Gongs
Introduction: 19983
Background:
Innovation:
Alloy: Nickel Silver (NS12)
Quality: Professional
Production:
Applications:
Users:
Sound: This model produces a warm, focused fundamental with rich, sustaining overtones.1
Source:
1 SABIAN.COM (retrieved November 10, 2024)
2 Sabian Cymbal and Sound Guide 2009
3 Sabian New For '98 brochure
4
"New and Notable", Modern Drummer, August 1992, p.124
