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Not everyone agrees with this unfavourable assessment, written well after the development of the very successful Paiste 2002 series. In particular, top-line malleable bronze cymbals proved exceptionally suitable for the louder music then developing. The best of them now approach, and some claim equal, the best bell bronze cymbals in quality.
A stamp from a 1950s-era Bellotti Cymbal. Bellotti was a small Italian cymbal workshop that produced cymbals from the 1950s until the 1970s. [2]Because so few of these vintage cymbals exist on the market today (they are much less prevalent that some other vintage Italian contemporaries, such as Zanchi), Bellotti remains one of the more obscure names in cymbal manufacturers.
Istanbul Agop Cymbals is a cymbal producer based in Turkey. Its products are well respected for their unique sound, [ 2 ] which is formed by the method and the alloy used, the formula of which is known only to the owners of the firm , Armenians Arman and Sarkis Tomurcuk.
In 1974 Meinl was the first cymbal company to offer pre-pack cymbal sets. [2] Meinl's initial cymbal production focused on low-budget cymbals, and it wasn't until 1984 with the "Profile Series" that Meinl started to really focus on professional-level cymbals. [3] The first Meinl pro series was the "King-Beat Series", introduced in 1976. [2]
UFIP is known for using the "Rotocasting" technique.This technique was patented (IT000001141690B) by the Zanchi brothers in the seventies.Rotocasting consists in casting molten bronze in a cymbal mold mounted on a centrifuge that spins approximately a thousand revolutions per minute. [5]
Agean Cymbals was founded in 2002 by Behnan Gocmez. [3] In 2007, the brand was bought by the Kırmızıgül family, who were already manufacturing traditional Turkish and other ethnic percussion instruments—including darbukas, doumbeks, and bongos—under the Kırmızıgül Company.