COMPLEX 1950s Block Stamp Vintage Zildjian 20” LIGHT RIDE SIZZLE 2266 g
Original price
$439.99
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Original price
$439.99
Original price
$439.99
$439.99
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$439.99
Current price
$439.99
- Well, you can’t ask much more from a cymbal than this:
- Dark, ultra buttery smooth, super warm with a Hand Hammered complexity and terrific woody stick definition but simultaneously solid 5.5” bell that cuts magnificently but is not brutish.
- Absolutely gorgeous - this is the tone that made Zildjian famous!
- A strike at the edge delivers a billowing, BIG DARK CRASH that is magnificent and sounds like no modern Zildjian.
- This is a 1950s Vintage Zildjian BLOCK STAMP 20”and it’s a perfect mix of smooth and complex with character.
- Along with the 1940s Trans Stamps the Block Stamp Zildjian is my favorite era of Zildjian. The metal is different from this era. It’s softer and more buttery.
- Forged when “Clifford Brown and Max Roach” was a new recording. That’s inspiring to play.
- Telltale golden era Zildjian Hand Hammering and bell mellowed golden brown 6-decade old patina. Dark and brooding.
- This is the cymbal all these companies keep striving to be. But this 20” just is.
- At a perfect 2266 grams this beauty inhabits the Goldilocks zone of Sizzle Rides - enough heft for a strong stick attack but still thin enough to be crashable.
- Primed for 6 rivets in the Vintage Old School configuration and currently outfitted with 2 old-timey rivets for a gorgeous rain-on-the-roof light Sizzle.
- Sounds like it’s plucked from a 1954 Thelonious Monk recording.
- Dark. Semi-dry. Warm. Medium pitched with highs and lows present. Fairly complex with a light smokiness. Light sizzle.
- Great shape with no issues. Beautiful 7 decade old patina mellows and smoothes this beauty.
- It’s a joy and inspiring to play a 70 year old actualky Hand Hammered 20” from the days Zildjian was literally BUILDING their reputation.