A complete unknown.

How's it sound?

Is it b8 bronze, or nickelbronze (is it reddish, or silverish in color?)

Interesting piece, anyway!

Luna, made in Germany. ...Don't know what factory it came out of.

Thanks for the i.d.!

The 'L' is worn off on the Luna stamp, so I couldn't read it.

Here's a link to pictures of the intact stamp that I found:

http://www.pearldrummersforum.com/showthread.php?136837-Luna-Cymbals

My cymbal looks more reddish in hue to me, but the pictures of the same cymbal at the above link look more silver. One guy over there thinks it's nickel bronze.

Most importantly, it sounds great. It's got a great, mid-range glasses-shattering sound with a short sustain. It works great for multiple stacatto crashes - almost like a giant splash. Grab one if you see it for sale.

If anyone knows anything more about this company, I'd be way interested. There doesn't seem to be much on the internet.

Thanks again,

Erik

Oops, I meant to write nickel silver.

There were 4 major drum manufacturers and at least 4 major drum rebrands or stencil brands in West Germany in the 50's. This left a lot of room for Paiste and Meinl to sell product into. I have seen Luna before and they look almost identical to some of the Roxy, Korri and early second line Trixon cymbals( Trixon also sold A.Zildjian with a Trixon stamp). Saying that, they were very similar to 50's Meinl Meteor cymbals ,which was the second line cymbal sold by Tromsa( Paiste Stambul were the other). For these reasons, I would take a stab at Meinl being the maker of these.