I'm so glad to have found your page! Thank you for all your dedication. I bought a Paiste Chiron from a friend (who barely used it) and have realized he was using flumies and a metal brush and there are light scratches. Which triggered my 'wanting it to be like new' - so your post helped me calm down. It sounds beautiful and has no dents or cracks. Question...Do you use flumies and/or metal brushes (just as light strokes for the particular sounds) ?? And more importantly, do the light scratches from these types of things eventually change/ruin/dampen the sound quality? Or is it just a visual think? I'm a bit bummed he didn't tell me he was using a metal brush and it had these marks. But from your post I feel inspired to just play and enjoy my musical TOOL. Any of your sage advice is welcome! 😊
Just found this oldie but goodie! Thanks so much. I'm curious, 9 years later do you still feel the same way about playing the Gong with your hands? I only ask because I was taught not to necessarily touch the gong with our hands due to the oils, So I just wanted to See if this is still something you do / teach? Thank you!
I use my hands all the time. As a percussionist I'm very 'hands on'-literally-because so many percussion instruments are hand held or played with the hands. I also don't really worry about finger oil or such, as I also keep my hands clean. Close up you can see finger prints on a lot of my gongs, but I don't worry about it too much. I might wipe them off with a cloth or just let them be to allow a nice patina to develop. Thanks for the question!
As a newbie this video was very helpful! I can see why it will take some time to learn the different articulations/ colors coming from the gong using such an array of mallets. i.e. The Ludwig mallet produced a sound that was different than I pictured in my mind by the looks of it. The attack of the sound was softer than the head seemed to imply.
A Chau or Wind/Feng Gong will often sound lower in pitch than a Paiste/Meinl Gong of the same size: different metal and different construction. There's also a great sensitivity/response difference between the 2 types. That's why, while Paiste are my main gongs, I have a large collection of various Asian Gongs to give me choices/options.
Denise - Vic Firth sells fur recover kits for their GB 1 & 2 Gong mallets. These will fit other brands as well. You might check them out. I will be covering this (pun intended), and yarn mallet wrapping, in my new gong course coming out in fall 2019.
Thank you very much for this video, great stuff! Can I ask you something though. In this video (below), in the first 35 seconds of play, the music sounds like temple music but I can't identify any of the sounds. Are all of these sounds created digitally and non existent as instruments? Thank you very much! /watch?v=1sJUsOP0T1o
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I'm so glad to have found your page! Thank you for all your dedication. I bought a Paiste Chiron from a friend (who barely used it) and have realized he was using flumies and a metal brush and there are light scratches. Which triggered my 'wanting it to be like new' - so your post helped me calm down. It sounds beautiful and has no dents or cracks.
Question...Do you use flumies and/or metal brushes (just as light strokes for the particular sounds) ?? And more importantly, do the light scratches from these types of things eventually change/ruin/dampen the sound quality? Or is it just a visual think? I'm a bit bummed he didn't tell me he was using a metal brush and it had these marks. But from your post I feel inspired to just play and enjoy my musical TOOL. Any of your sage advice is welcome! 😊
Just found this oldie but goodie! Thanks so much. I'm curious, 9 years later do you still feel the same way about playing the Gong with your hands? I only ask because I was taught not to necessarily touch the gong with our hands due to the oils, So I just wanted to See if this is still something you do / teach? Thank you!
I use my hands all the time. As a percussionist I'm very 'hands on'-literally-because so many percussion instruments are hand held or played with the hands. I also don't really worry about finger oil or such, as I also keep my hands clean. Close up you can see finger prints on a lot of my gongs, but I don't worry about it too much. I might wipe them off with a cloth or just let them be to allow a nice patina to develop. Thanks for the question!
Thanks so much for providing all this information - it's great for composers.
As a newbie this video was very helpful! I can see why it will take some time to learn the different articulations/ colors coming from the gong using such an array of mallets. i.e. The Ludwig mallet produced a sound that was different than I pictured in my mind by the looks of it. The attack of the sound was softer than the head seemed to imply.
Thanks
480p really? Why no 720p?
I definitely prefer a lower-pitched gong. I've heard other 32-inchers that sound much lower and fuller.
A Chau or Wind/Feng Gong will often sound lower in pitch than a Paiste/Meinl Gong of the same size: different metal and different construction. There's also a great sensitivity/response difference between the 2 types. That's why, while Paiste are my main gongs, I have a large collection of various Asian Gongs to give me choices/options.
Thanks for the head's up! :)
how do you put fur cover on the mallet? Do they sell pre made covers ?
Denise - Vic Firth sells fur recover kits for their GB 1 & 2 Gong mallets. These will fit other brands as well. You might check them out.
I will be covering this (pun intended), and yarn mallet wrapping, in my new gong course coming out in fall 2019.
@@Gongtopia thank you!
You are very good and very didatic
thanks for sharing.
Thank you very much for this video, great stuff! Can I ask you something though. In this video (below), in the first 35 seconds of play, the music sounds like temple music but I can't identify any of the sounds. Are all of these sounds created digitally and non existent as instruments? Thank you very much!
/watch?v=1sJUsOP0T1o
"damage the gong" oh, no! You can damage the gong? How do I know if mine is damaged?
Perhaps Dents or Cracks.
Thanks for the comment. I just got off the phone from firing the whole production company. Heads rolled! I will not stand for this sort if thing!