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I bought a Meinl Byzance Vintage Sand Ride 20" a few months ago and I love it. however it only wants to sit in one direction on the stand. if I try and spin it to another side it just spins right back after a few hits. I really love this cymbal and I paid so much for it ($850 CAD) and I don't want it to keyhole. I have felts and plastic sleeves but I'm worried that over a long time of only rubbing that one side it's gonna keyhole or crack. how could I fix this or will it not be a problem?

Hi! I used to use a Google home a while ago that I stopped using for this reason. before it switched to Gemini, my google home would start shushing me unprompted. I have the activation sound on so it wasn't misunderstanding background noise. it would randomly start shushing at random points in the day. I have no routines set for that and it never came up on the conversation history page. it happened once while I was trying to go to sleep. I obviously unplugged it after it started doing this but it was incredibly creepy. I started using a new one when I did but the shushing didn't happen on the new one.

Sorry for big fat word dump but I gotta know.