Black circular stripe hi-hat cymbal?

June 19, 2021 7:23 PM

In a music video, I saw a hi-hat cymbal with a black circular stripe around the middle of the top. I feel like I’ve seen this before. Google yields no results. Anyone?

If this helps, it was the video for The Way You Love Me by The Moffatts. It only shows the hi-hat briefly.

posted by jitterbug perfume to Shopping (4 answers total)

Here is a still from Until You Loved Me by The Moffatts.

What is the question?
posted by glonous keming at 7:50 PM on June 19, 2021

It’s a partially unlathed cymbal. Here’s an example: 14" Crescent Eon Hi-Hat 2012 (Pre-Sabian)
posted by jedicus at 8:04 PM on June 19, 2021 [3 favorites]

A couple of places online suggest that he plays Istanbul cymbals, which would probably make them these Sultans.
posted by oakroom at 10:00 AM on June 20, 2021 [1 favorite]

Coming back to say, if you want to know what the lathing does to the sound of a cymbal, here's a basic overview, and here's a drum forum with people getting way down in the weeds about this kind of partial lathing. Basically, unlathed cymbals have a much drier sound.
posted by oakroom at 9:21 AM on June 21, 2021 [1 favorite]