Jeez! The controversial K Zildjian sagas continue unabated!
I watched a couple of videos where some guy who is the head of cymbal making at Zildjian was talking with John Riley about vintage style cymbals....but all that happened was proof that no one is even really taking the challenge to make old style K cymbals seriously....at all.It was a shame what they had come up with. The cymbals they showed neither sounded nor looked like vintage cymbals. The hammering actually looked STUPID! It was some kind of spiral pattern....ugh!
I know I've heard all the explanations that no one knows the secrets of the now-dead master cymbalsmiths and so there can never be those old K style cymbals anymore -(which is what makes the market for the existing authentic old ones goes crazy).....
....But, again, I just can't believe that there's not a person on Earth who couldn't figure out how to make cymbals the old way...right down to making an old style hammer or whatever tools that were used back then. And then just start making those cymbals again. Price them at the top of the line....but just frickin' MAKE them! People can make accurate copies of anything else, but old K style cymbals are somehow exempt. I love them! I want them! Make them again, Zildjian!. Fire the current head of cymbal making if you have to...but stop making dumb cymbal lines that nobody wants.
/rant