Dry SMOKY Istanbul Mehmet 20” LEGEND DARK Ride 1957 g CLEAN Crashable
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$299.99
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Original price
$299.99
Original price
$299.99
$299.99
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$299.99
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$299.99
- I can guaranteed happiness!
- This is one of the nicest sounding dry, smoky 20s” you will hear. It makes a K Cons play like a Paiste Heavy Ride.
- And hardly anyone actually has this beauty in stock and where you can hear it.
- This Istanbul sounds like a 70-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, dry stick attack with a smoky, organic, fairly complex wash - but that wash dissipates fairly quickly for a nice sized 20”.
- The bell is raw and strong but not brutish.
- At ONLY 1957 grams, this 20” is very responsive and easily crashable. It’s a THIN weight for a 20” - right about a K Constantinople Thin Ride but not $600.
- Semi-dry to dry. Organic. Dark. Smoky Fairly complex but overall controlled. Medium quick decay. Easily crashable. All with a subtle Hand Hammered lightness that percolates.
- No issues. Amazing shape. Light patina on the underside. Very mild use. One of the finest dark and semi-dry rides you will come across.