Hard to Find SMOKY Istanbul Mehmet 21” LEGEND DARK Ride 2297 g
Original price
$349.99
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Original price
$349.99
Original price
$349.99
$349.99
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$349.99
Current price
$349.99
- Here’s one of the nicest sounding dry, smoky cymbals you will hear. And hardly anyone actually has this beauty! It’s Hand Hammered too!
- This Istanbul sounds like a 60-year-old cymbal.
- Istanbul’s LEGEND Series (also known as the MEL LEWIS Series) is, well, legendary.
- It has long been one of Agop and Mehmet’s best-selling series. It put them on the map 30 years ago.
- Mehmet expanded the series and this LEGEND DARK is one of my favorites. As you can see it has a wide-lathed, alternate gold and brown top side - like a Turk mixed with a Traditional, while the underside is fully lathed like a Traditional or regular Legend series. Very Agop Sig Ish. Or Bosphorus New Orleans but darker.
- The result is a stunning, semi-dry stick attack with a smoky, organic, fairly complex wash - but that wash dissipates fairly quickly for a big 21”.
- The bell is strong and raw and low profiled lending a beautiful dark done.
- At 2297 grams, this 21” is very responsive and easily crashable. Plays like a Thin to Medium Thin.
- Semi-dry. Organic. Dark. Smoky Fairly complex. Medium quick decay. Easily crashable.
- And this 21” is extremely clean although it SOUNDS like it’s 60 years old.
- As nice a cymbal as you will find.
- No issues. Amazing shape.