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  • UFIP Class Series

    The Italian rotocast flagship

    Cymbal · Italy

    Class is UFIP's main professional line and the clearest demonstration of rotocasting: bronze spun in the mould so the alloy densifies toward the rim. The cymbals are bright, clear, and unusually consistent between examples.

  • Amedia Old School

    Built to an older alloy and hammering recipe

    Cymbal · Turkey

    Old School cymbals are made to a pre-war specification: thin, low, and washy, with irregular hand hammering and a finish left deliberately uneven.

  • Istanbul Mehmet Sultan

    The workshop's traditional jazz line

    Cymbal · Turkey

    Sultan is Istanbul Mehmet's classic thin, dark, hand-hammered line, made the way the Istanbul workshop made cymbals before the company divided.

  • Crescent Stanton Moore Series

    The signature line that built the brand

    Cymbal

    Developed with the New Orleans drummer, the Stanton Moore series is dark, dry, and fast, with a wide flat ride and hats that close hard. Sabian continued the line after acquiring Crescent.

  • TRX DRK Series

    The dark end of the catalogue

    Cymbal

    DRK is TRX's dark line — thin, unlathed in places, and pitched low — and the series that made the brand's blunt naming scheme comprehensible at a glance.

  • Anatolian Ultimate Series

    The maker's flagship hand-hammered line

    Cymbal · Turkey

    Ultimate is Anatolian's top line: cast B20, individually hammered, and finished across a range of weights from jazz-thin to rock-heavy.

  • Soultone Custom Brilliant

    Polished hand-hammered B20

    Cymbal

    Custom Brilliant is Soultone's bright, high-polish line, hand-hammered in Turkey and finished for maximum sustain and visibility.

  • Wuhan China Cymbal

    The trashy china that became a studio standard

    Cymbal · China

    Wuhan's china cymbals are cheap, loud, and unmistakable, and they appear on so many records that the sound is effectively generic. The 14" and 18" are the ones most drummers own.

  • Bosphorus Master Series

    The workshop's traditional-weight flagship

    Cymbal · Turkey

    Master Series is Bosphorus at its most classical: cast B20, fully lathed, hand-hammered individually, and weighted toward the thin end. The rides wash rather than ping, which is the point.

  • Turkish Classic Series

    The house traditional line

    Cymbal · Turkey

    Classic is Turkish Cymbals' general-purpose hand-hammered B20 line, lathed top and bottom, and covers the widest set of diameters and weights in the catalogue.

  • Matt Nolan Custom Cymbal

    One-off cymbals made to a brief

    Cymbal · United Kingdom

    Nolan builds cymbals to order rather than to a catalogue — specified by diameter, weight, profile, and intended sound — which makes them common in film scoring and experimental work.

  • Diril Raw Series

    Cast in-house, left unlathed

    Cymbal · Turkey

    Diril casts its own bronze rather than buying blanks, and the Raw series shows it: unlathed, heavily hammered cymbals with a dark, complex, short response.

  • Agean Natural Series

    Hand-hammered B20, made to order if needed

    Cymbal · Turkey

    Natural is Agean's standard hand-hammered line, and like most of the catalogue it can be ordered to a specific weight rather than taken from stock.

  • Masterwork Custom Series

    Hand-hammered B20 from Istanbul

    Cymbal · Turkey

    The Custom series is Masterwork's professional hand-hammered line, covering the standard range of crashes, rides, and hi-hats in traditional weights.

  • Paiste Symphonic Gong

    The orchestral tam-tam

    Gong · Germany

    Paiste's Symphonic gongs are the tam-tams most orchestral parts assume: a broad, unpitched wash that builds slowly and takes a long time to die. They are made in diameters up to eighty inches.

  • Zildjian Crotales

    Tuned bronze discs

    Concert percussion · United States

    Crotales are small thick tuned discs played with a hard mallet or bowed, sold in chromatic octave sets, and Zildjian's are the ones most orchestral parts assume.

  • Paiste Planet Gongs

    Gongs tuned to calculated planetary frequencies

    Gong · Germany

    The Planet Gongs are tuned to frequencies derived from the orbital periods of the planets, a scheme that comes from sound-therapy practice rather than from orchestral tradition. They are widely used in film scoring and sound work.

  • Paiste Sound Creation Gongs

    Gongs built for specific characters

    Gong · Germany

    The Sound Creation series gives each gong a name and a purpose — Earth, Sun, Fire — with hammering and shaping aimed at a particular spectral character rather than a general wash.

  • Zildjian A Symphonic

    Orchestral crash cymbal pairs

    Cymbal · United States

    Hand cymbals for orchestral use are a different instrument from a drum-set crash: heavier, matched in pairs, and specified by weight class. The A Symphonic range covers the standard French, Viennese, and Germanic weights.

  • UFIP Gong

    Italian rotocast gongs and tam-tams

    Gong · Italy

    UFIP applies its rotocasting process to gongs as well as cymbals, producing tam-tams with an unusually even build and a bright upper spectrum.

  • Meinl Byzance Jazz

    Thin weights for small-group playing

    Cymbal · Turkey

    The Jazz line runs thin across every diameter, including the wide, washy Medium Thin rides and the small, fast hats that acoustic playing needs.

  • Zildjian Kerope

    A recreation of a 1950s K

    Cymbal · United States

    Kerope was developed by studying old Istanbul-era K cymbals and reproducing their thickness profile and hammering: dark, dry, and very quick to open, with a lathe pattern left rough.

  • Meinl Byzance Dark

    The Byzance family's warm core

    Cymbal · Turkey

    Byzance Dark is fully lathed but heavily hammered and pitched low, sitting between the bright Traditional finish and the raw Extra Dry.

  • Istanbul Agop Traditional

    The house general-purpose series

    Cymbal · Turkey

    The Traditional series covers Istanbul Agop's standard weights and finishes — medium, thin, dark, and the Original hi-hats — and is the widest part of the catalogue.

  • Meinl Byzance Vintage

    Thin, dark, and quick — the Benny Greb line

    Cymbal · Turkey

    Byzance Vintage includes the Sand series developed with Benny Greb: thin, low-pitched cymbals with irregular lathing and a very fast decay.

  • Istanbul Agop Turk

    Unlathed and dry

    Cymbal · Turkey

    Turk cymbals are heavily hammered and left largely unlathed, producing a dry, dark, short sound with a strong papery attack.

  • Sabian Stratus

    Thin, dark, and fully lathed

    Cymbal · Canada

    Stratus is a thin, dark line with a fine lathe finish, aimed at drummers who want a washy cymbal that still speaks under a stick.

  • Zildjian K Sweet

    Thin, wide, and washy K cymbals

    Cymbal · United States

    K Sweet extends the K family toward larger diameters at thin weights — 21" and 23" rides, 17" and 19" crashes — for drummers who want wash without volume.

  • Zildjian K Constantinople

    The company's traditional jazz flagship

    Cymbal · United States

    K Constantinople is Zildjian's most deliberately old-fashioned line: thin, hand-hammered, low-pitched, and made in small runs. The Medium Thin Low rides are among the most recorded jazz cymbals of the past thirty years.

  • Sabian HHX Evolution

    The Dave Weckl signature line

    Cymbal · Canada

    HHX Evolution combines hand-hammered darkness with a bright, clear stick attack, and its rides — with a defined bell over a controlled wash — are among Sabian's most widely used.

  • Sabian Omni

    One cymbal meant to be ride, crash, and china

    Cymbal · Canada

    Developed with Jojo Mayer, the Omni is a hybrid designed so a single cymbal can be played as a ride, crashed, and turned into a trashy accent — a practical answer to a small setup.

  • Istanbul Agop Mel Lewis

    A ride copied from one drummer's cymbal

    Cymbal · Turkey

    The Mel Lewis ride was reproduced from the cymbal the big band drummer played for decades: thin, dark, and washy, with almost no bell definition. It has become a reference point for jazz ride sound.

  • Zildjian FX Oriental China Trash

    The effects china

    Cymbal · United States

    The Oriental China Trash is a fast, bright, unapologetically harsh china that became a fixture in metal and in electronic-influenced drumming.

  • Zildjian A Avedis

    The 1950s A, remade

    Cymbal · United States

    A Avedis reproduces the thin, warm, quick A cymbals of the 1950s rather than the brighter modern A, with a rough finish and unlathed bell.

  • Istanbul Agop Xist

    The accessible end of the catalogue

    Cymbal · Turkey

    Xist is Istanbul Agop's more affordable line, still cast B20 and hammered in Turkey but produced in larger runs and offered in brilliant, natural, and dry finishes.

  • Istanbul Agop OM

    Very thin, very quiet

    Cymbal · Turkey

    The OM series is thinner than anything else in the catalogue, made for low-volume playing where even a thin traditional cymbal is too loud.

  • Istanbul Agop Signature

    The workshop's flagship traditional line

    Cymbal · Turkey

    The Signature series is Istanbul Agop's most traditional: thin, hand-hammered, low-pitched cymbals made in small numbers in the Istanbul workshop.

  • Meinl Byzance Extra Dry

    Unlathed, heavily hammered, and short

    Cymbal · Turkey

    Extra Dry cymbals are left raw with deep irregular hammering, giving an unusually short, dark, papery response. The 18" Thin Crash and the Dry Ride are the models most often seen.

  • Soultone Vented Series

    Perforated cymbals for built-in trash

    Cymbal

    Soultone perforates these cymbals with cut vents so they produce the broken, trashy character drummers otherwise get by stacking two cymbals together.

  • Amedia Vintage

    Aged surfaces, dark response

    Cymbal · Turkey

    The Vintage series is finished to a darkened patina and weighted toward the thin end, aiming at the recorded cymbal sound of the 1950s and 1960s.

  • Bosphorus Turk Series

    Unlathed, dry, and very dark

    Cymbal · Turkey

    Turk cymbals are left largely unlathed with heavy hammering, producing a dry, short, trashy voice with almost no sustain — the cymbal equivalent of a muffled drum, and a studio staple.

  • Istanbul Mehmet Samatya

    Named for the Istanbul district the trade grew in

    Cymbal · Turkey

    The Samatya series is thin, warm, and quick, named after the quarter of Istanbul where Turkish cymbal making has been concentrated for generations.

  • Istanbul Mehmet Nostalgia

    Low, washy, and deliberately old-sounding

    Cymbal · Turkey

    The Nostalgia series aims at the pre-war Turkish cymbal sound: low pitch, immediate wash, and a stick sound that sits under rather than on top of the cymbal.

  • Crescent Element Series

    Crescent's general-purpose line

    Cymbal

    Element covers the standard crashes, rides, and hats in Crescent's dark, quick-decaying voice, at a lower price than the signature series.

  • Anatolian Expression Series

    General-purpose Turkish B20

    Cymbal · Turkey

    Expression is the mid-catalogue line, lathed top and bottom with moderate hammering, and the range Anatolian sells most of.

  • TRX NRG Series

    Heavy cymbals for loud stages

    Cymbal

    NRG cymbals are heavy and cut hard, made for the volumes at which thinner Turkish cymbals wash out entirely.

  • Bosphorus Traditional Series

    The house line, jazz-weighted

    Cymbal · Turkey

    The Traditional series covers the widest range of the Bosphorus catalogue, from paper-thin crashes to medium rides, and is the line most Bosphorus players start from.

  • Masterwork Resonant Series

    Brighter and longer-sustaining

    Cymbal · Turkey

    Resonant is the bright end of the Masterwork range: tighter lathing, higher pitch, and a longer sustain than the Custom line.

  • Diril Jazz Series

    Thin, fast, and quiet

    Cymbal · Turkey

    Diril's Jazz cymbals are thin enough to open under a brush and are pitched low for their diameter, aimed squarely at acoustic small-group work.

  • Bosphorus Black Pearl

    Dark, dry, and unlathed on the top

    Cymbal · Turkey

    Black Pearl cymbals combine an unlathed upper surface with a lathed underside, giving a dark stick definition over a dry, controlled wash.