A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.

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Entry from June 29, 2018
“Gongs are just really flat bells”

Gongs have been compared to cymbals and bells.
 
“A gong is really just a squinting cymbal #asianjoke” was posted on Twitter on April 9, 2012. “A gong is just an asian status cymbal” was posted on Twitter on November 16, 2012. “Gongs are just bass cymbals” was posted on Twitter on December 8, 2017.
 
“A gong is nothing but a flat bell smh” was posted on Twitter on August 20, 2017. “Gongs are just really flat bells” was posted on Reddit—Shower Thoughts on June 28, 2018.
 
     
Wikipedia: Gong
A gong (from Malay: gong; Chinese: 鑼; pinyin: luó; Japanese: 鑼, translit. ra; Khmer: គង - Kong; Thai: ฆ้อง Khong; Vietnamese: cồng chiêng) is an East and Southeast Asian musical percussion instrument that takes the form of a flat, circular metal disc which is hit with a mallet. The gong traces its roots back to the Bronze Age around 3500 BC. The term ‘gong’ traces its origins in Java and scientific and archaeological research has established that Burma, China, Java and Annam were the four main gong manufacturing centres of the ancient world.[1] The gong later found its way into the Western World in the 18th century when it was also used in the percussion section of a Western-style symphony orchestra.
   
Twitter
Foster Krebs
@FosterKrebs
A gong is really just a squinting cymbal #asianjoke
9:08 PM - 9 Apr 2012
   
Twitter
Andrew
@andrewhuuang
a gong is just an asian status cymbal
5:36 PM - 16 Nov 2012
 
Twitter
Eric J. Stolze
@ericjstolze
A gong is nothing but a flat bell smh
12:38 AM - 20 Aug 2017
     
Twitter
Turkmenistan
@turkturk95
Gongs are just bass cymbals
7:08 PM - 8 Dec 2017
   
Twitter
hentai ⚡️ christ
@Horge666
gongs are just big china cymbals
5:56 PM - 15 Apr 2018
 
Reddit—Shower Thoughts
Gongs are just really flat bells.
submitted June 28, 2018 by ivysaur
 
Twitter
RandomFun!
@RandomFun_
Gongs are just really flat bells.
7:32 PM - 28 Jun 2018
 
Twitter
Oliver Happy
@haphappyoliver
Gongs are just really flat bells.
- Shower Thought
11:06 PM - 28 Jun 2018

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