Ritually important musical practices resounded across Bronze Age cultures from Arabia to South Asia, a pair of unusual discoveries suggest. Excavations at a roughly 4,000-year-old settlement near the ...

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Zildjian cymbal are used by top drummers across the globe — they've been made by one family, using a secret process, for 400 years. Wow. That's a Zildjian cymbal. Drummers across the globe know that ...

Seifried’s impromptu cymbal showroom—a small subset of his growing hand-made inventory—has expanded to fill his Mason living room. Steve Seifried doesn’t know how many instruments he owns. The number ...

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From symphonies to rock music, marching bands and advertising jingles — we hear Zildjian cymbals everywhere. Drummers across the globe know that name because it’s emblazoned on every gleaming disc.

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A pair of 4,000-year-old cymbals might have helped immigrants integrate into new cultures in the ancient world 1. Humans have been making music for millennia. By the third millennium bc, sculptures ...