Istanbul Agop Traditional Pap.Thin Crash 18"

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Traditional Paper Thin Crash

  • Suspended cymbal
  • Handmade cymbals from Turkey
  • Size: 18"
  • Weight: approx. 1.1 kg
Available since March 2010
Item number 242317
Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
Hand Hammered Cymbal Yes
Finish Regular, Traditional
Alloy B20 Bronze
£266
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Lovely cymbals
Nostradamus 23.11.2021
I have all three cymbal sizes Thomann sells from this series, and the 17" is a perfect main crash. The 18" is a perfect slightly beefier second crash. And the 16" is a perfect slightly faster accent crash. Add a suitable ride, and you have a fine cymbal setup indeed!

(You'll have to try a few of each to find cymbals that work well together of course, but that's just how cymbals are, it's not particular to these.)

Agops are in general comparable to the top lines from Zildjian/Paiste/Meinl in quality, but sell a bit cheaper. Not because they are more cheaply made, but because the global financial system is unfair. The Turkish cymbal smith who signs his work under the bell simply gets less paid for his skilled labor than he should.

It's not fair, but it is what it is... I get a great deal on some of the world's finest cymbals, so I can't really complain.

These cymbals are among my favorites. I own a lot of cymbals with special interesting character (dark/dry/trashy/weird/ugly in a cool way), but these are just regular old cymbals that sound like cymbals did before people started asking for more tonal variety. Bog standard cymbal sound, of the highest quality. And that's actually the most useful cymbal sound in the end!

There is one caveat with this line of course: They are Paper Thin, just as advertised. You have to hold back your strength and play them gently.

I honestly think most drummers would be better served by getting the Thin version instead, but if you're up for the challenge of learning to hit your crashes with a lighter touch, you get richly rewarded!

The lower sound volume of Paper Thin cymbals is a real boon: You save your ears, your bandmates are happier, and recording engineers will love you for the reduced cymbal bleed they get in the tom mics.

The attack is medium fast on these, which is fine with me. They do decay slightly slower than I like though, so I dampen them just a tiny bit to make them leave room a little faster.

To do this, I find the sweet spot to hit and dampen the top with a finger to find the sweet spot to dampen, where it does the most good and the least damage. Then I put a piece of gaffer tape in that position on the underside. Just a 5x50 mm piece of tape (mounted radially) does the trick for me. It doesn't affect the sound noticably, it just makes it go away a little faster.

With this subtle modification I'm 100 % pleased with these cymbals. They're worth their quite flimsy weight in gold!

Now how do you persuade Thomann to also start selling the 15" and 19" versions?
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Mat837 15.05.2021
Achetée pour compléter un set déjà assez fourni, la tâche était rude car je souhaite conserver du contraste entre mes cymbales. Cette Turque de 18" a remplit merveilleusement son rôle, car elle procure un crash assez puissant pour s'intégrer à mon set de crash (paiste full crash 19/paiste giant beat multi 24/paiste formula 602 modern 16). Je cherchais une couleur différente, c'est pourquoi mon choix s'est porté sur une véritable cymbale turque martelée à la main (favorisant les basses fréquences dit-on..) Eh bien cette Istanbul Agop m'a "réconcilié" avec la technique, ayant déjà été déçu par une autre marque. C'est une "paperthin", donc on aurait pu douter de son sustain, il n'en est rien, à mon goût la durée de vibration est tout à fait correcte, cela ne dépareille pas avec les autres. Le son peut être doux ou puissant, et selon comment on l'aborde (auditivement parlant), on peut le trouver très grave (plus bas que les autres) ou plus haut (c'est une histoire de fréquences et d'octaves). Le son en lui même (pris isolément) est un vrai régal, et je comprends les batteurs qui se satisfont d'un set comprenant juste 2 cymbales de ce genre. La cloche n'est pas exceptionnelle, mais j'ai de quoi faire avec les autres, ce n'est pas vraiment un problème. Elle peut également (la cymbale) s'accommoder d'un léger ride d'accompagnement. J'ai mis 4 étoiles en qualité de fabrication uniquement par rapport à l'impression du logo, il n'est pas aussi visible qu'il le devrait, sinon la cymbale (le martelage) est extrêmement
bien fabriquée, on sent la maîtrise des ouvriers Agop.
Pour résumer une excellente cymbale au son(s) merveilleux, polyvalente, qui vous enchantera et pour pas si cher que ça.
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Joachim271 02.01.2017
Sehr ausgewogenes Crash. Kann von ganz leise bis ganz laut (obwohl Paper Thin)! Tiefer weicher Klangcharakter. Schöne Ansprache, nicht zu langer Sustain. Einfach edel.
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Anonymous 27.06.2016
Excellent cymbale. Très belle, sobre, bien finie et surtout ça sonne très très bien. Classique et classe voilà les maîtres mots de cette cymbale et de la marque en général.
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