Using a "mountable" cowbell as a handheld cowbell
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 9:26 am
I came across a salsa cowbell that sounds good to me and which I intend to use handheld.
The only thing is that it is a "mountable" cowbell.
So on the bottom it has a clamp bracket with the diamond-shaped holes, on which the eye-bolt assembly is supposed to come.
But I have removed this eye-bolt assembly.
So the bracket is left empty. But still, the bracket remains as it is welded to the base of the bell, whereas normal handheld cowbells have nothing there.
I chose this bell because for some reasons the comparable handheld models just didn't seem to sound as good to me.
Am I going to run into problems (musical or otherwise) if I use handheld a "mountable" cowbell ?
Do you know of examples where a musician uses handheld a mountable cowbell ? Or is it a thing that just isn't done ?
The only thing is that it is a "mountable" cowbell.
So on the bottom it has a clamp bracket with the diamond-shaped holes, on which the eye-bolt assembly is supposed to come.
But I have removed this eye-bolt assembly.
So the bracket is left empty. But still, the bracket remains as it is welded to the base of the bell, whereas normal handheld cowbells have nothing there.
I chose this bell because for some reasons the comparable handheld models just didn't seem to sound as good to me.
Am I going to run into problems (musical or otherwise) if I use handheld a "mountable" cowbell ?
Do you know of examples where a musician uses handheld a mountable cowbell ? Or is it a thing that just isn't done ?