We have a pair of concert cymbals that our Sophomore cymbal player marches with, since we lack the proper supplies to give all seven of our cymbals marching cymbals, and he crashes so hard that they tend to get inverted at least once per day.

I've kind of had a reputation with the cymbal grips untying on me, not necessarily breaking cymbals, but, something similar to what happened to GothicDrummer119.

It was one of our first shows infront of an audience, at the fair, and it came to the playing of the National Anthem. I wasn't playing the pair I usually do, since I was lazy and one of the smaller-pair (14'') players wasn't there, so instead of using my 18'' ones, I used the smaller ones. I went to do one of the crashes, and as soon as I moved my arms, the cymbal fell because the grip untied. I was pretty embarressed, but, atleast the crash wasn't out of place.

one time when I was marching at a half time show I was crashing and I had to do a triple forte and I had to do like a little solo/visual and I crashed and my cymbal just inverted and then right after that my cymbal strap broke I was so embarrassed

ok there is rivalry in every county right ok then u should all understand that we all get a little wild sometimes me and my friend corey played cymbals in the stands since we were in the pit and we had no one teach us we just fiddled with it got lots of bruises and headaches well we figured out some pretty cool stuff well we had senior night and we were playing '' land of a thousand dances well we always change everything so we had one person playing while the other showing off then both playing etc then we have a combination move we made up for like the last couple of measures your left hand is held up high while your spinning your right cymbal bring them in for a crash then stop spin your whole body to the left you get the idea complicated well the last spin is left hand in front of body right is behind you spinning then pull them up to chink behind your head well my left cymbal strap broke and corey had sit down because he was sick he said it zoomed past my head and hit him in the shoulder so band stops doink ahhh as soon as we stopped it was so embaressing my face was red I didnt play anymore that night

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I recent cracked some cymbals in HS. I was playing the HS fight song and I was probably playing them harder than I should have, they ended up with a huge crack in my 16'' cymbals. Another junior on our line cracked his 18'' too, so we had to drill a hole in it to stop it from cracking more. A couple more shows later it kept cracking past the drill hole.

ive broken 3 pairs of cymbals and this is my first year playing them

I have a cymbal story!
Two years ago our cymbal line thought it would be a cool visual to play frisbee with a cymbal. Well 2 people from our line were tossing it back and forth during practice and the next thing we knew, the cymbal flew across the room. It was funny but scary at the same time. The cymbal was fine and the funny thing was that we still ended using the frisbee visual.

Breaking cymbals is always a result of improper technique.

I have broken on pair of cymbals, when I first started playing plates way back two years ago (haha), I grabbed a pair and did a full orchestral horizontal crash, and cracked a line on the cymbal about 7 inches in length, and halfway between the bell and edge. Our HS still uses those cymbals to date.

As a side note, I've gone through 3 pairs of cymbal straps. The first two from carelessness. The last because the cymbals had no gromet, and the leather was slowly being cut away at.

I've never seen a broken cymbal ,but I have seen inverted ones when people drop them.

Our high school band has always been fortunate to supply a new shiny pair of zildjans every time we get a crack.

I have broken 4 pairs. Its easy to break pairs when you are a cymbal line marching independently. We dont hold for snares and our cymbal line has our own uniforms because of all the running and flipping around we do.

I think whats funnier than cracked a cymbal.. is inverting them.

And worse than any of those, is clipping your chin and having to go have your cut checked out lol