Most of these brands such as Bosphorus and Istanbul Agop hail from Istanbul, Turkey. Meinl is from Germany but has a plant in Turkey for their Byzance line. These companies are mostly family run and passed down threw generations. The art of cymbal making is a centuries old process and is learned by working in these factories. Most new cymbal companies in Istanbul are started by former employees of other cymbal companies and follow very similar production methods. All Turkish hand made cymbals start with the molten metal alloy, from various metals, being cast into round ingots. Once the ingot is set the process of rolling the metal flat and round begins using large metal rollers. Once the round shape if achieved, workers begin the process of hand hammering and lathing the cymbal to achieve the final sound and appearance characteristics. Depending on the style of the cymbal lathing and hammering can vary greatly which gives customers many great styles and sounds to choose from.
Cymbalism Music is one of the few cymbal retailers to offer exclusively smaller and niche brand cymbals. We believe that the big three brands have dominated the market too long and have been offering mass produced and very generic products. These companies are far more concerned about quantity than quality and unfortunately most drummers will be stuck playing these cymbals unless they take the step to explore what’s now available to them. Regretfully the smaller cymbal companies don’t have the marketing budget of the big boys and don’t have the exposure that they need. We can only hope that as popularity grows for their products so will their availability. As for now check out Cymbalismmusic.com for a full selection of all the top niche brands.
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Cymbalism Music (http://www.cymbalismmusic.com) provides drummers huge collection of top cymbal brands like Meinl cymbals, Istanbul Agop cymbals, Bosphorus cymbals, Alchemy cymbals and Wuhan cymbals as well as electronic drums and cymbals by Ddrum, Pintech, Wirges and Visulite. It also offers high quality Keyboards, Guitars, Drum bags, cymbal cases etc too. For more information, Contact Scott at scothut1@yahoo.com
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