Roberto Spizzichino cymbals

[luciano]

Hello, few days ago I joined this forum posting pictures of drums of my collection, few of you asked me about the Spizzichino Cymbals. Well I met Roberto about 25 years ago when he was attempting to hammer his first cymbals, at the time I was collecting old K Istanbul and he was interested to hear the sound of mine.....After that for about ten years I lost contact with him, he called me middle '90s telling me that he was now hammering a chinese material and if I wanted to start the sales of his cymbals. End of '90s he started to use Turkish material that was supplied directly from Turkey.
Now he's well know all over the world to be one of the best cymbal maker, his cymbals are mainly used by jazz players, as Brian Blade, Kenny Washington Billy Drummond and many other.
He has specialized also in synphonic "piatti" and he supplies the most well known Orchestras in the world as The New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Wienna and many other symphonics......

I will attach few pictures of his works.
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k251/ ... 2080gr.jpg
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k251/ ... 2240gr.jpg
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k251/ ... 2Spizz.jpg

[killer_pingoui]

Hello Luciano
I have a question about spizzichino's cymbals:
Are the "Spizz" cymbals we can find on eBay made by this guy, or not ?
Maybe there is a small cymbal maker that stamp "spizz" on his cymbals but it's not Roberto ...

Allright, thank you for your post, and sorry for my english

[luciano]

Yes the cymbals you see on eBay are made by Roberto Spizzichino and the logo is like the one I post here.
Thanks.
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k251/ ... z-logo.jpg

[killer_pingoui]

There is sometime a big red logo, not engraved but stamped.

[un gens]

It seems to be really beautiful cymbals!