About the cymbal page
What
This site contains descriptions of cymbals in general and especially of cymbals I own. Since words alone are not enough to do justice to these wonderful metal objects, they are accompanied by pictures, and most important, by sound samples in mp3 format. You will need an mp3 player such as 1by1 or WinAMP to listen to them.
Why
There are several reasons why I'm doing this:
- Share my knowledge and experience with cymbals
- Get some knowledge writing HTML (what you see when you click 'view source' in your browser ).
- After years of merely consuming the various resources on the internet, I felt it was about time to give something in return. This is my attempt of paying back to the community (part of it, that is).
- Writing this makes me re-think my being a cymbal nerd, which is really a good thing.
- After one year of paying for it I finally found something meaningful enough to fill my 10 MB share of the ISP's disk space with.
How
Most of the programs used to build this site are free of charge. These pages were done with the help of the excellent SelfHTML web authoring tutorial and the Arachnophilia web page editor. Rather than WYSIWYGing it makes you see and learn the HTML you're producing. Credit goes to Paul Lutus for writing this fine program.
The images were partly scanned from photos, others came from Sony 505 and Agfa CL18 digital cameras. Pictures of smaller objects were made by placing them directly on a Scanmagic 4800 P. A bit cheesy but does the job. They were then cropped and down sampled using IrfanView by Irfan Skiljan.
The audio recordings were made at a distance of 30 cm using a Audio Technica ATR25 Stereo microphone plugged into a rotten old Soundblaster 16 and edited in Cool Edit before converting them to mp3 format. The recordings were not processed, except where noted. Only cropping of unnecessary data was done to ease downloading.
