It is most often a heavy, standard cymbal, but some drummers use a swish cymbal, sizzle cymbal or other exotic as the main or only ride, particularly for jazz.

In the 1960s Ringo Starr used a sizzle cymbal as a second ride particularly for use during guitar solos.

Some drummers use a china cymbal, a sizzle cymbal or a specialized tone such as a swish or pang cymbal as a ride cymbal.

A sizzle cymbal thinner and one size larger than the main side was common in some styles of early rock music as a secondary ride cymbal, particularly for accompanying guitar lead breaks.

A sizzle cymbal is a cymbal to which rivets, chains or other rattles have been added to modify the sound, attached either by means of holes bored in the cymbal or by means of an attachment known as a sizzler.

The most common form of sizzle cymbal used in a drum kit is a large ride cymbal with a number of rivets loosely fitted but captive in holes spaced evenly around the cymbal close to the rim.

This might be called the traditional pattern sizzle cymbal.

If the rivets are removed from a sizzle cymbal its previous tone will be restored, despite the small holes left in the cymbal.

In order to produce a sizzle sound without the need to bore holes in the cymbal, sizzlers may be used.

When a sizzle cymbal is required in an orchestra, most often a chain sizzler is used.

The effect is similar to a loosely closed hi-hat, or can alternatively be seen as an extreme case of a sizzle cymbal with the upper cymbal serving as a single large jangle.

The swish has a higher tone than the pang and is washier with a less pronounced ping, and this difference is accentuated as the swish is generally sold with rivets as a sizzle cymbal, while the pang is sold without rivets.

Small sizzle cymbals, and splash cymbals with sizzler attachments, give an even shorter, washier tone than a traditional splash.

His moto was " Sell the sizzle not the steak " and he would not allow actual intercourse to be shown in his films.

Yet, their sizzle and iciness are considered by some musicians to be unique, even by today's standards.

The desired sound is a " sizzle then choke " effect.

Half an ounce ( 1 Tbsp ) of butter is added just before the plates leave the kitchen in order to create the signature ' sizzle '.

In other genres such as jazz ( which may use less hammered cymbals for a lighter and less distorted effect ) the drummer may play with the tip for more of a " sizzle " sound.

Almost immediately they began to sizzle.

Danny Thompson plays the legendary Victoria, Graham Fox gives plenty of swing on the drums and sizzle cymbals and Louis Vause tinkles the ivories.

Jim eventually dissolves in a sizzle of plasma-like energy.

It burst harmlessly, its effects dissipated, showering him with sparks and globs of flame that struck his hands and astonished face and then vanished in a sizzle, as if they were falling into standing water.

The love story between Mahowny and Belinda and the inclusion of other finely drawn characters such as hapless casino employee Bernie ( Chris Collins ) put the emphasis squarely on the gambling addiction, not on the flash and sizzle of big casinos or multi-million-dollar frauds.

Students are also treated to a free sausage sizzle and a certificate of participation.

Babb advocated the use of the hard-selling technique he had perfected as a presenter: " selling the sizzle instead of the steak ", according to an interview.

Many early rock music drummers, such as Ringo Starr, used a secondary ride cymbal with rivets, normally a ride cymbal thinner than the main ride and ideally one size larger.

They are generally struck with a wooden mallet on one skin and with a thinner stick on the rim or cymbal.

A second crash cymbal is common, typically an inch or two larger or smaller than the 16 ", with the larger of the two to the right for a right-handed drummer, but a big band may use crashes up to 27 " and ride up to 24 " or very occasionally 26 ".

A rock kit may also substitute a larger ride cymbal or larger hi-hats, typically 22 " for the ride and 15 " for the hats.

Istanbul Agop relocated to a newer and larger facility in 2007 where it combines its manufacturing of hand made professional and machine made student cymbal lines at one location.

This technique is still used, at times, but has largely been replaced by specialised cymbals with larger mounting holes that can be mounted on a cymbal stand.

Bell cymbal made by cutting down a larger cymbal

The earliest bell cymbals were made by cutting down a larger cymbal, particularly to salvage something from one that was badly split at the edge.

They are available individually or, more recently, in sets of two or three, including larger cymbals intended primarily as the lower cymbal or cymbals.

* On an auxiliary boom attached to a stand used principally to support a drum or another, larger cymbal.

* By piggybacking on a larger cymbal.

The lower cymbal of the piggyback is often a crash, or less often a ride, but larger splashes and even chinas can be used.

For example, almost all of the larger modern cymbal companies offer a flat ride cymbal and an alternative to the Sound Edge Hi-Hat.

Ultimately, however, at some point in the late 80s or early 90s, F & F Zanki ( like many other small, independent cymbal / gong-making families in Italy at the time, including Tronci and Tuscano ) could no longer compete with the larger cymbal-makers.

The first A is an expansive threnody on solo cello ( Schmidt's own instrument ) whose seamless lyricism predates Strauss's Metamorphosen by more than a decade ( its theme is later adjusted to form the scherzo of the symphony ); the B section is an equally expansive funeral march ( deliberately referencing Beethoven's Eroica in its texture ) whose dramatic climax is marked by an orchestral crescendo culminating in a gong and cymbal crash ( again, a clear allusion to similar climaxes in the later symphonies of Bruckner, and followed by what Harold Truscott has brilliantly described as a " reverse climax ", leading back to a repeat of the A section ).

Some drummers even use completely mismatched hi-hats from different cymbal ranges ( Zildjian's K / Z hats ), of different manufacturers, and even of different sizes ( similar to the K Custom Session Hats where the top hat is a sixteenth of an inch smaller than the bottom ).

When struck, a ride cymbal makes a sustained, shimmering sound rather than the shorter, decaying sound of a crash cymbal.

There is a different balance of instruments in two spots, and in particular the snare drum is more prominent than the album version which also features additional cymbal work.

Some manufacturers of bell bronze cymbals now use hot-rolling and cold-pressing of individual cymbal blanks rather than traditional forging.

They are also called hand cymbals, however a hand cymbal can also be a suspended cymbal struck by hand rather than with a beater, and crash cymbals, however a crash cymbal is more commonly a medium sized and strongly tapered suspended cymbal struck with a drum stick.

China cymbals are those whose sounds are derived from the Chinese, rather than the Turkish, tradition of cymbal making.

A suspended cymbal is any single cymbal played with a stick or beater rather than struck against another cymbal.

At the thinnest and most fragile end of the scale, a thin splash is identical to, and interchangeable with, a cymbal designed for playing by hand rather than by stick.

It is not uncommon, however, for each player in a cymbal line to have a different sized pair of cymbals than their peers because it is an efficient way to carry out different sounds and tones depending on what the music and / or percussion director calls for.

The cymbal stands and tom-tom holders featured a ball-and-socket tilting mechanism that offered more flexibility in positioning than most if not all of the hardware of Rogers ' competitors.