Meg White

On this page of Paiste's official website, it states that Meg White uses the 2002 22 inch ride.

beginning in 2006 she also used a pair of Paiste 14-inch (36 cm) Signature Medium Hi-Hats

Lot #32 in the August 26, 2020 Third Man Records auction.

Rare is it that any White Stripes musical equipment has been made available to purchase and this cymbal is prime for that fan who has EVERYTHING (we're looking at you Frank A.)

CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY WITH ORIGINAL SIGNATURE BY BENJAMIN BLACKWELL

On offer here is a 19" Paiste Full Crash cymbal. After developing an edge crack (notice the arrow pointing to it in the picture), this cymbal would've been removed from Meg's kit almost immediately after its appearance.

From my recollection, Meg did NOT break cymbals often, and the ones that did crack were almost always just shipped back to Paiste.

There's no telling how long Meg had used this cymbal, but at the VERY least, I would expect it to have been used for the preceding week of shows in Australia and New Zealand, as part of the Big Day Out Festival. It's not too far-fetched to think the cymbal would have been used even longer than that, but it's impossible to verify.

Written in marker on the underside of the cymbal is "killed by Meg, 1/28/06 Melbourne, OZ" in an unknown hand.

Seriously, I think this is the coolest item available in this auction. Bid confidently and with the understanding one may never seen ANY other piece of Meg's iconic stage-used drumset available ever again. Rest assured we do not have a pile of destroyed Meg cymbals just laying around, and even if we did, none would be so properly documented as this one.

Sincerely,

Ben Blackwell

White Stripes Archivist

1997-present

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Meg White is associated with the Paiste Signature Power Crash 19" cymbal, as noted in the "Equipment" section of her Wikipedia page.