A RARE and beautiful find! this cymbal is in such INCREDIBLE condition, it's hard to believe that the model has been out of production for almost 20 years!

From Cymbalwiki

Discontinued: 2007

Background: Designed to create "the pure sound of the earliest Zildjians made in the US during the 1930s" (and based heavily on vintage cymbals from Armand Zildjian's personal collection).

Alloy: B20

Quality: Professional

Production: According to one source, they were produced in batches of forty at a time, in limited quantity. The cymbals were then aged for two months in Zildjian's vault before testing.

Review: "Described as medium thin by Zildjian, I'd peg this ride more specifically on the thin side as compared to most others on the market. That thinness gives it an airy, breathy sound when played softly and a sweet, pure, musical sound when played more forcefully. Even when I played at a fairly energetic volume level, the cymbal responded with a sibilance that gave it body, without ever getting washy or trashy-sounding. A nylon-tipped stick brought out more highs—and thus more stick articulation—while a wood-tipped stick retained the vintage character of the ride sound. As a bonus, the cymbal's thinness gave it excellent response when crashed, too.

The bell on this model is not large, and the bell-ride sound isn't great. But then, drummers didn't play the bells very much back in the swing era. What they did do was propel twenty-piece big bands with the shimmering sound of rides like this. Very sweet."

Review written by Rick Van Horn ("Product Close-Up - New Zildjian Cymbals", Modern Drummer, June 2001, p. 36)