Striking a cymbal with different beaters changes its output spectrum.

Evidence

Cymbals are struck in a variety of ways, either as a pair of orchestral crash cymbals or as a “hi-hat” in a drum kit or with hard or soft beaters. Crash and hi-hat cymbals excite all modes, since all modes have antinodes around the edges of the cymbals. The use of beaters gives the player some control of the output spectrum in the same way that is described for a kettledrum. — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 1309