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Originally Posted by Phil Gaynor  Guys,
I got an email during the week from a cymbal maker offering some really great deals less than half what you would pay for a Zildjian. Their top range 21" ride costs less than 180 euro - after researching a bit I know they make the raw product for Paiste and then Paiste put the master finishing touches - but normally when a deal is to good to be true it's because it is - anyone want to comment before I go mad and but a sh1t load of thin from Turkey...
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MURAT DIRIL CYMBALS
Website : .::www.muratdiril.com::..Handmade Turkish Cymbals..::.. |
I agree with Der but i have never heard what they sound like. Do you like the sound? Try them out and check if there is any warranty. I have a 2 year on mine that the manufacture gives on their cymbals which is excellent in my opinion. If you get one of them or how ever many you buy let us know what they sound like.
This is a cool story from the link he worked with
Paiste and
Meinl which is pretty impressive.
I thought his background is very interesting
.::www.muratdiril.com::..Handmade Turkish Cymbals..::..
Murat Diril was born in 1974 in a small town on the Black Sea coast near Trabizone where the very first hand made Turkish cymbal was ever made. He lived there until his parents moved to İstanbul in 1987 where he first witnessed the creation of a cymbal at the work place of İstanbul Cymbals. He started working for and learned a lot from Mehmet Tamdeğer and Agop Tomurcuk, owners of İstanbul Cymbals. These two super craftsmen taught him the secrets of making good quality cymbals which later became very much in demand around the world. Murat was enjoying himself there very much and, at the same time, trying to find out ways and means to improve the quality of B20 material. This has become a dream and a passion for him but he also new that it was quite impossible for him to make this dream come true there where he was working . That is why he decided to leave Istanbul Cymbals to set up his own company. In 2000 he met the people from
Meinl, one of the leading cymbal manufacturers in the world. Working together they started to explore the possibilities of creating new cymbals from B20 material. At the end of these mutual efforts,
Meinl’s Byzance and MB20 cymbals were born. They worked together for 6 years and Murat made more than 100,000 Byzance and MB20 cymbals for hundreds of musicians, drummers and bands around the world, who played them with great pleasure
As a devoted believer, he thinks destiny plays an important role in his life. This time destiny led him to another world famous cymbal manufacturer. The
Paiste company and Murat Müzik joined forces in the second quarter of 2006 to introduce a series of new cymbals to the world. Murat was so excited with this new friendship and quickly became a craftsman generating
Paiste’s new creations. The new series designed by the
Paiste company was called ‘’20 Series’’ and Murat has manufactured them in Samsun/Turkey for almost two years. The new cymbals were super in forcing the limits of human imagination. Reactions from every corner of the music world came quickly as drummers found every thing they wanted in these cymbals. The compliments were pouring in. The NAMM show in 2007 was the birth place of the series.
Murat has decided to come to the market with his own cymbal with his own trade mark. These cymbals are the results of 22 years of professional hard work and sweat and will be called ‘’ Murat Diril Cymbals The Renaissance Series’’ . These hand made cymbals are the most developed form of B20 metal and, if I were you, I wouldn’t buy any cymbals until I see and hear these new ones and check their prices.
We have a saying in Turkey. It reads’’ humans make plans for future but destiny laughs’’.It is right again isn’t it?
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