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I'm just curious. I know Dolmayan plays Paiste, but I'm not sure if the decision was entirely for sonic or political reasons.
I'm just curious. I know Dolmayan plays Paiste, but I'm not sure if the decision was entirely for sonic or political reasons.
I've known a couple of Greeks who sure wouldn't buy anything Turkish.
I play Giant beats and have been a fan of Paiste 2002's for years.
BUt cymbal blanks.. UFIP
I was on holiday in Italy and much to my wife's anger.. she was promised a holiday away from the music industry.
What could I do it was fate, the hotel had a disply of cymbal makers tools and blanks and a huge UFIP sign.
The hotel owner told me the owner of UFIP was a mate who came regularly to play cards with him and his buddies and the factory was in the village.
A day or so later the hotel manager said he had spoken to Luigi and if i wanted i could just go show up & he would show me around.
Until now I had never taken any real notice of UFIP, but his was a real eye opener.
The cast their own blanks and have aspecial very slow cure process that provides there unique sound's.
This was real backyard stuff, all being done in the same place since 1920..
YES 1920!
But the sound's are amazing, very musical BUT no 2 the same, if your serious then Luigi will keep blank casts from the same moulds as your set for future replacement.
HERES THE AMAZING PART.
Luigi asked me if I could speak German, My kid's are all Anglo/swiss so we speak a German dialect.
He took us into his office and came back with a book full of letters from the early 30's all written in German from PAISTE and letters from Z and letters from S cymbals from latter years.
Luigi sent Paiste samples of his castings and later provided them all with blanks.
Then the war came and the old factory was bombed by the Americans and vast amount's of tooling and material were lost.
So to close, alongside the Turkish tradition there was a bell making tradition in Italy since the early 12 hundreds .. Luigi's family have been in it from the start & if you ask me He should really be considered the father of modern cymbal manufacture.
I wish I could afford a set but they don't suit my style and genre.
Simon