R.I.P Robert Zildjian Sabian Cymbal Founder

By |March 28th, 2013|Categories: Gear News|Tags: , , |

Robert Zildjian, founder of Sabian cymbals passed away today. If you don't know the back story here is the write up on the wiki page. Robert Zildjian (14 July 1923 - 28 March 2013) was the founder of Sabian Cymbals, the 2nd largest manufacturer of cymbals in the world. Robert Zildjian belongs to the Zildjian family, which brought the technology of cymbal making from their ancestral homeland in capital city of modern Turkey to the United States by Avedis Zildjian and then was passed on to future generations of the family members.The company was founded in 1981 in Meductic, New [...]

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