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In cymbal making
Cymbal making

Modern cymbal making uses many different techniques, from traditionalhand methods to completely automated mass-production....
, taper refers to the gradual change in thickness from the bell to the rim of the cymbal
Cymbal

Cymbals are a modern percussion instrument. Cymbals consist of thin, normally round plates of various cymbal alloys; see cymbal making for a discussion of their manufacture....
. It is one of the key features that determines the tone
Timbre

In music, timbre is the quality of a musical note or sound or tone that distinguishes different types of sound production, such as voices or musical instruments....
 of the cymbal.

This change is typically not uniform, and it is extremely difficult to generalise on the effects of taper, just to say that they are profound. Crash cymbal
Crash cymbal

A crash cymbal is a type of cymbal that produces a loud, sharp "crash" and is used mainly for occasional accents, as opposed to in ostinato. The term crash was created by Zildjian when such cymbals were introduced by Avedis Zildjian III in around 1928....
s tend to have the most pronounced taper, with the faster crashes and the richer tones the most pronounced of all.






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In cymbal making
Cymbal making

Modern cymbal making uses many different techniques, from traditionalhand methods to completely automated mass-production....
, taper refers to the gradual change in thickness from the bell to the rim of the cymbal
Cymbal

Cymbals are a modern percussion instrument. Cymbals consist of thin, normally round plates of various cymbal alloys; see cymbal making for a discussion of their manufacture....
. It is one of the key features that determines the tone
Timbre

In music, timbre is the quality of a musical note or sound or tone that distinguishes different types of sound production, such as voices or musical instruments....
 of the cymbal.

This change is typically not uniform, and it is extremely difficult to generalise on the effects of taper, just to say that they are profound. Crash cymbal
Crash cymbal

A crash cymbal is a type of cymbal that produces a loud, sharp "crash" and is used mainly for occasional accents, as opposed to in ostinato. The term crash was created by Zildjian when such cymbals were introduced by Avedis Zildjian III in around 1928....
s tend to have the most pronounced taper, with the faster crashes and the richer tones the most pronounced of all. The bell of a paperthin crash or a fast crash can be thicker than that of many ride cymbals. On the other hand, china cymbal
China cymbal

In western music, china type cymbals are cymbals manufactured to produce a dark, crisp, trashy, and explosive tone. Their origins can be traced back to the gong in both sound and shape, and thus they are given their name 'china'....
s tend to have little or no taper, as do the heavy to medium weights of splash cymbal
Splash cymbal

A splash cymbal is a small cymbal used for an accent in a drum kit. Splash cymbals and china cymbals are the main types of effects cymbals.Most splash cymbals range in size from 6" to 12" in diameter, though some splash cymbals go as low as 4"....
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Hi-hat and ride cymbal
Ride cymbal

A ride cymbal is a type of cymbal that is a standard part of most drum kits. Its function is to maintain a steady rhythmic pattern, sometimes called a ride pattern, rather than to provide accent as with, for example, the crash cymbal....
s tend to have intermediate taper, with the washier ride cymbals having less than the pingier cymbals, but there are exceptions. A flat ride cymbal may have no taper at all and simply be a machined disk of uniform thickness, but a slight taper is more common.