Splash Cymbal - Mounting

Mounting

The splash cymbal, because of its varied usage and small size, is mounted in many ways. Some common ways are:

  • On a separate boom stand. This can be of relatively light construction without a counterweight owing to the light weight of the cymbal.
  • On an auxiliary boom attached to a stand used principally to support a drum or another, larger cymbal. This is the traditional method.
  • On an auxiliary boom attached to the rim of a snare drum or timbales. This is particularly popular for playing latin rhythms.
  • By piggybacking on a larger cymbal. The two cymbals must be separated by an extra felt if they are not to each affect the other's tone and risk damage.
  • By use of a double stand that mounts the top cymbal on an extension of the stand that replaces the wing nut holding the bottom cymbal. These are commercially available but more often created by adding an accessory to a single stand.
  • As the upper cymbal in a stack in which another cymbal is deliberately in contact with the splash.
Common mounting techniques
On a separate boom stand
attached to another stand
attached to a snare drum rim
piggybacked on a ride
on a double stand

Several of these techniques, notably stacking and piggybacking, are very rarely used for cymbals other than splash cymbals. The rim-mounted boom is restricted to splash cymbals owing to the weight of other cymbal types, but similar mounts, traditionally on the top of the rear rim of the bass drum but also on other drums, are occasionally used for other lightweight accent effects, particularly a cowbell and/or a wood block.

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