Makes it easier to play ride and crash on a China cymbal. Inverted bell on China cymbal introduced in 1983 as the 2002 NOVO china type.Made from the B8 alloy unlathed cymbals were marketed towards louder music styles as punk and heavy metal. Used today with the Crystal Hi-Hats and Crashes of the Signature series. With the introduction of the Sound Creation Short Crash in 1975 Paiste was the first to make use of a flattened bell design. Zildjian and Sabian use this alloy primarily for entry level lines, choosing instead to use bell bronze for high end products. Paiste was for a time the only major cymbal company to use the B8 alloy for its high end lines although Meinl has recently introduced a line of high-end cast B8 bronze cymbals as well. Gained general acceptance with the Giant Beat and the 2002 series. First introduced with the Stambul 65 series in 1965. Referred to by Paiste as 'CuSn8' alloy or ' 2002 bronze'. The use of B8 bronze as a cymbal alloy.To prevent airlock the bottom cymbal of the hi-hat pair has ripples along the edge. Originally designated as Space Sound in the Formula 602 line. Paiste has made several innovations to cymbal design and manufacture. The business was continued by Mihkel's sons Robert and Toomas, with both the Swiss and German operations as the main manufacturing centres. In 1940 the family and the cymbal making operation moved to Poland, where they continued under extremely difficult conditions, and in 1945 to Germany, and then in 1957 a new headquarters and production facility was established in Switzerland. The cymbal making aspect of the business expanded with the passing years, despite the disruption of several moves necessitated by war, first to Tallinn in Estonia in 1917, where Toomas' son Mihkel Paiste decided to concentrate on cymbal production and export. Toomas had served in the Czarist Guard, and retired in 1901 to open a music publishing business and music shop. The first Paiste cymbals were produced in 1906 by Estonian musician Toomas Paiste in his instrument repair shop in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to customer orders.

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