Zildjian Sound Lab - 22" K Constantinople Renaissance Ride

Welcome to Zildjian Sound Lab Videos. In this installment we talk about and play the 22" K Constantinople Renaissance Ride with Paul Francis. He plays the cymbal and talks about what separates this K Constantinople from all the others.

Here's a transcript of the video:

Paul Francis: Welcome to the Zildjian Sound Lab video. Today we're going to talk about a new addition for 2012, and its part of the K Zildjian Constantinople series: The 22" Renaissance Ride.

Now we developed this in conjunction with Adam Nussbaum, and we've been working on cymbal designs with Adam for at least the last twenty years. Some of the unique things about this K Zildjian Constantinople is that it has three rows of over hammering and four series of clusters. We kind of borrowed from other series of cymbals. The four series of clusters actually comes from our K Symphonic series. The over hammering has been done on the K Custom Dark series. We also borrowed the same bell that's in the 22" Bounce Ride. So this is kind of a hybrid of several difference series to get a sound that Adam was looking for.

One of the things that Adam wanted was a cymbal that had a little bit more give to it., so we lathed it with a smoother style lathing and what we call an A Custom lathing. Also, to keep the stick definition a little bit more predominant, Adam asked that we didn't lathe the underside of the bell, which also helps gives a clearer bell sound.

This is a great addition to the Constantinople series, and we welcome you to check this out on Zildjian.com or at your local Zildjian dealer.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• cymbals
• Zildjian
• drummers
• Renaissance Ride
• K Constantinople
• Ride Cymbals
• Paul Francis
• Sound Lab

[LanceCampeau]

Gorgeous crash tone...

[wolfpack9iloilo]

For me the best Ride cymbal I've ever heard. I hope one day I can afford buying this beautiful cymbal.