Turkish Cymbals Bells

If you're looking for a clear, bell-like tone on the drum kit that stands out from the wash of your crashes and rides, reach for bell cymbals. Use them for single accents, recurring figures or entire bell patterns, as an extra bell next to your ride or in a percussion setup. Our range includes bell cymbals by Turkish Cymbals as classic bells and as flat bells, with and without rivets.

Sizes, pitches and designs

Our bells range from the 6-inch bell to the 11-inch bell. Small bells sound higher and more direct, larger ones sound fuller. Because the pitch changes with every size, you can build short melodies from two or three bells. The Ad Astra Bell and the Rock Beat Raw Big Bell are Heavy models made of thick material, with a full tone. Flat bells have no domed bell; their centre is flat. That goes for the heavy Xanthos-Cast Flat Bell Sizzle and for the Satellite Flat Bell in Medium-Thin, which, depending on how you strike it, sounds like a bell or like a short splash cymbal.

From the Big Bell to the Flat Bell Sizzle

The bells of the Ad Astra series sound clear and melodic, with the slightly dark undertone of the series, and their sizes complement each other in pitch. You'll hear them in fusion, progressive rock, world music and in percussion setups. The Big Bell of the Rock Beat Raw series gives a bright, piercing bell tone that cuts through in metal and rock even at full band volume; it also suits grunge, blues and progressive.

The Flat Bell Sizzle of the Xanthos-Cast series sounds dark and percussive, with the sizzle of its three rivets over every stroke. With it you can play bell accents in metal and rock, bell figures in progressive rock and effects in jungle grooves, and it gives blues and soundtracks a dark sizzle colour. The Satellite Flat Bell from the Soundscape series, Jarrod Cagwin's signature series, sounds quiet and bell-like under your fingers and very clear with a light stick stroke; it suits percussion, world music, jazz fusion and soundtrack work. If you'd rather play bell figures directly on the ride, you'll find models with a large bell among our ride cymbals, such as the Rock Beat Raw Ride.

Bronze, hammer and lathe

All four bells are made of B20 bronze (80% copper, 20% tin) and hammered by hand at Turkish Cymbals in Istanbul. There is little lathing: on the Ad Astra Bell only the bell itself, on the Xanthos-Cast Flat Bell Sizzle only the flat centre. The Satellite and the Big Bell, which is polished to a mirror finish, remain completely unlathed. Before a cymbal leaves the workshops, it is individually tested by hand.

As the official Turkish Cymbals dealer in Germany, we have been advising you personally since 2015 – with genuine expertise and shipping directly from Berlin. Discover our bell cymbals in hand-hammered B20 bronze.