My student brought me a cymbal, kind of heavy, I believe it's a 16" crash, very hard to see the stamp but it looks like it says zanchif or zanchifar or sanchifar.
It has a cursive logo above it that looks like it says vibra and april below it. I really can't make it out. Just wondering if anyone knows of anything like it.
probably a vibra zanchi f&f,italian made cymbal.
mike
Looked at it with a magnifying glass and yes it says ZANCHI F&F VIBRA, any way to know how old, is this the company that became ufip?? Any collect-ability?
50s-60s...later changed name to Zanki. Italian rotocast cymbals. I have a couple. Decent instruments!
Not the worst recapture of Zanchi and Zanki history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanchi_%28cymbals%29
Nice cymbals - softer sounding than Zildjian A´s.
Jon
Probably not rotocast,I don'y yhink that started till 1977 or so.
