and this is how your cymbals SHOULD NOT look like

[radeq]

hey guys, I decided to post picture of one cymbal, we found during out tour in the US :) so check it out, and try to avoid that status of cymbal :D
aaa the second one is me :P

[driver]

That is insane! Must of took some serious hits to get that way

[TopCat]

wow..that's crazy...where did you find it exactly?

[radeq]

hm, it was in one smaller church in siloam springs, I guess it is oklahoma, or somewhere on boarders oklahoma and arkansas

[TopCat]

A church? jeez, who'd be hitting it that hard in there!

[Drummer Karl]

holy...!!! haha, if you are hungry please eata roll or cheese or so...but not your cymbals! lol
this looks pretty damaged :-D
wow, how did you make this?!

Karl

[Mediocrefunkybeat]

Caption competition time!

'Ahead Sticks latest endorser!'

'Sick of McDonald's, the drummer decides to try Zildjian fast food instead'

'China Boy Low? Below the ground more like...'

[radeq]

holy...!!! haha, if you are hungry please eata roll or cheese or so...but not your cymbals! lol
this looks pretty damaged :-D
wow, how did you make this?!

Karl

aint mine cymbal, I found it in one church in US :) I wouldnt and couldnt do this to my cymbals....

[TopCat]

Zildjian - 'Well...we thought we'd get our metal alloys from the same guy that does our select hickory..'

[BarryBuchanan]

haha i just gota ask u..what does it sound like? :P :D haha!

[GRUNTERSDAD]

What a great ad for the other major Cymbal companies.

[Zildjian 242]

wow that guy who had it has no technique or is a really hard hitter

[Dak]

"Zildjian's factory workers discover new manufacturing technique...Chew a china, crap a splash!"

[pimp_my_RIDE]

It's a new type of hand hammering they are trying out. It's

[Tuxido]

haha i just gota ask u..what does it sound like? :P :D haha!
You MUST put a sound clip ! Im very curious aswell, must sound trashy with a ring to it(from the cracks touching each other ) ??

[Drum-Head]

Oh man you GOTTA use that cymbal as a stack! I say throw a crash on top of it and clamp it down for a nice "TCHA!" sounding stack. At least, that's what I would do...

[Drummer Karl]

aint mine cymbal, I found it in one church in US :)

oh yeah, and then you thought: "I`m hungry, so hungry!"

hahaha, just kidding...but this looks really awful! if this cymbal is mine, I would cry!!!!

Karl

[Just Drums]

"The new editable cymbal allow from Zildjians proves to be a big success among starving musicians."

[drummer_wid_pulse]

I wouldnt be surprised if it was from a church......if it was like an apostolistic church those drummers just keep beating them cymbals just as long they have a sound. Lol same with me. What led you to a church in the US?

[PdoubleE]

LOL .. i got a whole room full of cymbals that look like that.. From my younger years of playing without Any technique at all.. pure power and aggression!!

[secondXheartbeat]

Zildjian - 'Well...we thought we'd get our metal alloys from the same guy that does our select hickory..'

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA

[pimp_my_RIDE]

Here at zildjian, we value our customers and understand that as a dummer y,our income isn't fantastic. So we've created this new line of edible cymbals. Coming in:, pork, chicken, and beef. And just for the vegeterians drummers, guacamole.
Coming soon, a new ride that acts as a roof.

[cymbals~FEAR~me]

I can see the beginning of a news article, "Drummer locked in his van survives by eating his cymbals for three weeks..."

[thumper]

Maybe they were "exorcising" the demon within that China......

[somedrummer]

Great thread.

"We provide the crust, and all you have to do is add your favorite toppings, heat, cut, and CHOW DOWN!"

[Jay.B.]

HAHAHA f@*kinell man, shame it's not your cymbal LOL mucho respecto would've been sledging your way haha I'll take my camera to the rehearsal room tonight and take some pictures of MY trashed cymbals LOL think there's 4 of them now ... ... ... ...

[radeq]

I wouldnt be surprised if it was from a church......if it was like an apostolistic church those drummers just keep beating them cymbals just as long they have a sound. Lol same with me. What led you to a church in the US?

hey :) we were doing a tour - our trumpet player is an american who is living in our country for more than 5 years...He invited us to go play to churches in the US, and try to gain prayer support from them for the TV program (christian tv for non believers) he runs in slovakia in some cities. So we visited some about 15 churches almost in the whole US ( few churches in chicago illinois; marshfield wisconsin /we recorded there in studio; siloam springs arkansas; tulsa oklahoma;lubbock and forthworth texas; carlsbad new mexico ; north stafford and massaponax virgina; and than we flew back home from chicago :) yeah and that's it :)

[Melvin]

Wow!! And I thought my church's drummer was an animal. The one that broke that was praising the Lord very loud!!! HAHAHAHA

[ege_the_drummer]

Zildjian- "Zildjian China Low. For those who, at the end of the work day, are just too stressed out."

[Tuxido]

why did you invert you pictures ? :)

[KingBeastie]

The guy in your first picture looks like Bert from Sesame Street!!

[Cymbalrider]

and some Apple Paiste for desert....

[White]

there is a seller on ebay who sells broken cymbals I forget his name but he has ones 10X worse than that, and ppl are bidding on them

[d.c.drummer]

and some Apple Paiste for desert....
lol, goes the brokeness intisify that nastyness of the china?

[Cymbalrider]

IT'S A FRISBEE.....or a birdbath...a doorstop?....candy dish?.....I give up...

Oh wait..it's a cymbal ...oh!!

[Vintagedrummer]

After nearly 100 years, we now see a photo of the super secret process Zildjian uses to create cymbals. Shown here is the input phase of the process. The output (new cymbal) is produced using a naturally occuring process and connot be shown here for obvious reasons....

And you guys thought Keebler was the only company using elves to produce a product.

VintageDrummer
Yamaha Stage Custom Nouveau
Sabian B8 Pro's
Paiste 2002 & a
Whole room full 'o heads

[Drumsword]

I was looking at the picture and my 4 yeard old daughter couldn't understand why you ate your cymbal.

[dwjosh]

there is a seller on ebay who sells broken cymbals I forget his name but he has ones 10X worse than that, and ppl are bidding on them

i know who you are talking about. his user id is bargainland-liquidation and he sells some serious crap. every once in a while there is a decent cymbal on there though.

[defunkt]

That would make a mean ninja star or something

[badlydubbedsean]

how they SHOULD NOT look like? oops.

[radeq]

i think they should not look like that one :D do they?

[Norske]

there is a seller on ebay who sells broken cymbals I forget his name but he has ones 10X worse than that, and ppl are bidding on them

Proof positive that one man's junk is another man's treasure. And also proof that you should never throw a cymbal out. Someone out there will actually shell out cash for it!

[ArtyZ]

LOL .. i got a whole room full of cymbals that look like that.. From my younger years of playing without Any technique at all.. pure power and aggression!!

I used to be a really heavy player. I went through cymbals like crazy. Man, what a waste!
Anyway, I packed up about 30 of them and shipped 'em to Zildjian in the hope of maybe getting 1 or 2 'complete' cymbals. Heck, the metal alone must be worth something to them. I can't remember what it cost to ship, but I do remember their reply. [soup nazi]No new cymbals for you![soup nazi/]
Ha! I really did have a lot of busted and cracked cymbals though. Wish i had a pic. Maybe i do. I'll have to look. Thanks for posting this. It brought back memories.

Arty Z out.

[bonzo49]

Caption competition time!

'Ahead Sticks latest endorser!'

'Sick of McDonald's, the drummer decides to try Zildjian fast food instead'

'China Boy Low? Below the ground more like...'

"A Garibaldi biscuit was tyhe strongest dipping biscuit, but Zildjian have changed all that"

[cpearson32]

My cousin does that to cymbals on a daily basis.
Hearing someone play that hard was the loudest experience of my life