How Zildjian Cymbals Made It From the Ottoman Empire to Now In 1622, Avedis Zildjian, an Armenian metalworker in Turkey, melted a top-secret combination of metals to create the perfect cymbal ...

Cymbal-maker Zildjian has entered the electronic drum kit space, while Noble & Cooley is the oldest drum maker in the U.S. After 400 years as the world’s leading manufacturer of cymbals ...

Examples of these can be seen in almost all of the top-end cymbal lines such as Zildjian’s A and K ranges, Sabian’s AA, HH ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Avedis Zildjian Company is the the oldest cymbal maker in the world. For 400 years, the family business survived migration, a world war, and the worst economic ...