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this week, i played drums for sr. luau and afterwards i wondered how drums worked again. last time, i was wondering about toms and snares and so on but now i started to wonder about cymbals. the drum set i used have 2 cymbal and a hi-hat which is kind of like a cymbal. one of the cymbal is called crash cymbal which is used to make a loud noise at the end of a song or the end of a fill. another cymbal is called ride cymbal which makes a high pitched sound and often used when the song is quiet and slow. hi-hat is used most often and it consists of two cymbal stacked like a pancake with a space inside (because cymbals arent flat, it has curved surface). What i wondered was, what makes these cymbals so different because none of them sounds the same. ride cymbal has the biggest surface area so when i crash it, it makes the dimmest sound. on the other hand, hi-hat though i never tried it, will most likely make the brightest sound when i crash it. but this doesnt explain why ride cymbal has the high pitched noise when i hit a different spot of the cymbal. we need to learn more physics to figure this out doc.