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Melting
Copper melts at 1,085°C, tin at 232°C. Melted together, eighty parts copper to twenty parts tin, they become B20 bronze.
Hand-hammered B20 bronze cymbals from Turkey’s largest cymbal production facility, in Samsun.
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Every Diril cymbal begins as fire.
Copper melts at 1,085°C, tin at just 232°C. Poured together, eighty parts to twenty, they become B20 bronze.
Then it is hammered into a voice.
About three days and at least seven processes. All of it by hand.
An old Turkish craft.
Cymbals have been made by hand in Turkey for centuries. We carry that craft forward, so no two Diril cymbals ever sound the same.
Made in Samsun. Played worldwide.
Since 2008, every Diril has been made by one family, under one roof in Samsun.
Samsun, Turkey
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Turkey’s largest cymbal production facility.
Every Diril is cast, rolled, hammered and lathed here, under one roof in Samsun.
The craft. Seven steps from fire to sound.
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Casting
The molten bronze is poured into a small, thick disc. Around 15 cm wide and 5 cm thick, every cymbal starts here.
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Rolling
Heated again and again, the disc is rolled out pass after pass until it reaches its size.
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Tempering
A heat treatment in the oven gives the bronze its strength and its spring.
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Creating the bell
The bell is formed at the centre. Its shape decides much of how the cymbal will speak.
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Hammering
Thousands of strikes by hand. This is where a cymbal finds its character, and why no two are the same.
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Lathing
Tonal grooves are cut on the lathe and the final weight is set. Then we listen, and only then does it leave the factory.
Hand-hammered in Samsun since 2008.
B20 bronze cymbals made by one family, from the first pour to the last pass on the lathe. Thirty-four series, every one shaped by hand.
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All 34 seriesMaster Design.
Signed by Ibrahim Diril
Hand-picked from our standard series by our founder, then finished with deeper, more precise hammering and a flatter profile. Every Master Design cymbal carries his signature.
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Hear it before you order.
Real soundchecks, no studio tricks. Put two cymbals side by side in the Sound Lab and switch between them at the same moment in the clip.
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One family, one roof.
Founded in Samsun in 2008 by Ibrahim Diril. Today every Diril is cast, rolled, hammered and lathed in our own facility, by the same family.
- 2008
- Founded in Samsun
- No. 1
- Largest cymbal facility in Turkey
- B20
- Bronze, cast in our own foundry
- 34
- Series
Contact us.
Questions about a cymbal or an order? Write to us. We usually answer within a day.
- Phone
- +90 536 391 74 08
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- Factory
- Samsun, Turkey
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