Coptic Cymbals

Comments

• copticuser20

  August 2011

  If someone from New York can confirm, most churches have "bookstores" that sell cymbals and other coptic items. If not, you can order them
  
  http://www.stmosesbookstore.org/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=ilvm_fly_showroom_mall.tpl&product_id=1679&category_id=16&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=2
  
  or
  http://www.stmosesbookstore.org/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=ilvm_fly_showroom_mall.tpl&product_id=1678&category_id=16&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=2
• andrew8345

  August 2011

  If you have people going to Egypt who are willing to get it for you, I strongly encourage that. The cymbals you get from church bookstores in the U.S. just aren't as good.
  
  If what copticuser20 recommended isn't possible, go to any local musical instrument store and get your own pair.
  
  [quote=Atiya, Aziz S. (ed.), The Coptic Encyclopedia, vol. 6, (New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1991), p. 1738.]
  They are a pair of slightly concave metal disks (usually silver) about 7 inches (18 cm) in diameter, with a cupped center 1 ¼ inch (3 cm) in depth. A hole in the center of each disk permits the passage of a string held in place by a wooden pin that acts as a handle for manipulating the cymbals.