Turkish Cymbals

Hi friends,
this is Bülent E. Albayrak from Cymballand. At firstly I'm sorry for my language. My German language is not enough momently. But I'm working on it. I'm a drummer and I'm playing Turkish Cymbals for 12 years as an endorser. Now I'm living in Berlin and I'm the distributor of Turkish Cymbals in Germany. I'm ready to answer if you have any question about Turkish Cymbals.

ÜBER CYMBALLAND

Cymballand ist Händler von „100% Handgefertigten B20 Turkish Cymbals“ in Deutschland. Die Firma wurde in Berlin vom Drummer und Endorser Bülent Ecevit Albayrak gegründet, der bereits seit 12 Jahren Turkish Cymbals verwendet. Das Motto von Cymballand, welches darauf abzielt Schlagzeugern hochqualitative, komplett handgemachte B20 legierte türkische Becken zu „geringen Preisen“ zu verkaufen, lautet „From Musicians to Musicians“. Cymballand weiß sehr genau, dass ein Drummer gern alle Eigenschaften seines Beckens (Aussehen, Sound, Herstellungsmaterial, Herstellungsprozess etc.) kennen möchte. Daher ermöglicht Cymballand seinen Drummern in Berlin und Umgebung die Becken direkt auf einem Drumset zu testen. Zusätzlich bieten wir Drummern, die unsere Webseite http://www.cymballand.de besuchen, die Möglichkeit, die handgemachten B20 legierten Turkish Cymbals audiovisuell zu erleben.

ÜBER TURKISH CYMBALS

Die handgefertigte Beckenherstellung begann in Istanbul-Samatya im Jahre 1623. Zunächst wurden sie als „Mehteran“ Becken für das osmanische Militärorchester mit Hilfe antiker Techniken gefertigt und erst im Nachhinein als Becken für moderne Musik.
„Turkish Cymbals“ wurde im Jahr 1996 in Istanbul von Mehmet Tamdeğer gegründet. Er arbeitete in Istanbul – Samatya mit der Zildjian Familie und lernte alle Details und Tricks der Beckenherstellung. Momentan ist er der einzige, lebende Hersteller, der mit der Zildjian Familie zusammenarbeitete und die Techniken zur handgemachten Beckenherstellung kennt. Nachdem die Zildjian Familie in die USA immigrierte und mit der Herstellung von Becken mit Hilfe von Maschinen begann, entschied sich Mehmet Tamdeğer dazu weiterhin handgemachte Becken in der Türkei herzustellen. Zunächst gründete er seine eigene Firma mit dem Namen “IstanbulMehmet Cymbals” und half später bei der Gründung der Firma “Turkish Cymbals” mit eigenem Geschäftsanteil. Alle Handwerker und Kunsthandwerker der Fabrik wurden von Mehmet Tamdeğer ausgebildet und er ist noch immer die letzte Person, die den Herstellungsprozess der Becken überprüft und bestätigt.

The website is:
http://www.cymballand.de

And dear drummers, we have a special project for drummers. We created an interactive website for you. This website is not for selling cymbals. It's for checking the sound of Turkish Cymbals as personally online. This is an unique virtual studio. You can play all of our Turkish Cymbals with your pc mouse for listening their exact sounds. You can get sound from their bells, edge or middle space. Also can listen open hi-hat, closed hi-hat, chick sound. The website is : http://www.cymballandvirtual.de

Cymballand's YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkUfpj_IbypUT0-TMqE24KQ

Facebook Pages:
https://www.facebook.com/cymballand/
https://www.facebook.com/turkishcymbalsgermany/


My personal Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/bealbayrak


Handy: 0177 4035975


E-mail: info@cymballand.de


Please don't hesitate to call or write to me...

Thanks for your time, drummers! I'm ready to help for building your unique Handmade Turkish Cymbals sound. Hope to hear you!...
Best regards,
Bülent

Thanks chino, I'm gonna do that. Excuse me if I did something wrong. I'll be appreciate if anybody warn me about my mistake. I'm open for to get help.

Dear Hebbe,
thank you very much! I recognized that, my topic has been already transferred to the right place with your help. I think I can feel free for sharing information about my cymbals, right? So, hi again, folks

Dear Moe Jorello (cool nick name btw:) ),
this is really cool feedback for me. I appreciate for this, thanks. The site (http://www.cymballandvirtual.de ) is really user-friendly (just click on a cymbal and listen to the natural sound) and it looks like very simple (the site is only 1 page) . But we worked really hard for this. Almost 20 different software is working together in the page (this is what my software team said to me). And I think this is first in the world. I just wanna to give an opportunity for checking Turkish Cymbals out to drummers before buying them. I think and I see that, this is working for who wanna find a cool cymbal sound for his (or her) drum set.

Zitat von Oliver_Stein

The Website is cool, it even works on the Ipad. Probably the best presentation of cymbal sounds I have seen up to now!

Thanks Oliver, it's good to hear that. Actually we have some delaying problems with Safari browser and we are suggesting Chrome or Mozilla Fireworks for the best result.
I needed a reference for finding my drum sound like Cymballand Virtual as a drummer before. Now I created it. I hope it helped to you, too.
All the best,
Bülent

Zitat von Oliver_Stein

I had some weird delays bur thought of WLAN issues... anyway, the sound room of another manufacturer does not work at all on the Ipad, so some delayed sounds are way better than no sound. Maybe you find a fix for Safari further down the road...

Yeah, I have some delays on my iPad and Macbook when I'm using Safari. Be sure we'll work for it but we need time for fix the situation. It's not a regular website actually. This is an application which working as online. We wanna make it perfect and gonna do this. Please check http://www.cymballandvirtual.de with Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. I believe you'll really enjoy... Thanks, mate!...

Zitat von Two

Good to have a Turkish importer in Germany again.
Good luck with the business!

Danke schön!

Zitat von Mace22MF

You and your software team did a great job.
The different "sound zones" are great.

Thanks a lot! We are working for the best service. I planned for this project for long time. It was like an imagined toy for me. Because there are only sample tracks or videos which are played and recorded by somebody. I thought, it hasn't to be like that. Musicians suppose to be active while they are looking for something as online. Doesn't matter cymbals, snares or another instrument. Ok, we played and recorded our sample sounds, too but at least drummers can choose the sound of the zone of the cymbals and they can compare them. They're not passive sound listeners anymore. I told to my programmer friend what I'm planning for http://www.cymballandvirtual.de , and he said, "yeah, why not, it looks easy! " But be sure, it wasn't . It took long long time and much more effort than our plans. But it doesn't matter, it works, right!

Hi velleron, thanks for your kind. Correct, my websites ( both: http://www.cymballand.de and http://www.cymballandvirtual.de ) have bit more traffic at the moment. Especially Virtual Studio. I'm happy to be here with you. This is a really cool forum and it's educative for me at firstly as a drummer. Hope to hear other drummers! Cheers!...

You're welcome, Kklon, Enjoy them