About Twenty

For centuries, legendary SnBz20 bronze has been produced in Turkey according to ancient knowledge, and has also found its use for cymbals.

In their tireless effort for the perfection of the skills to create sound from metal, Paiste have gathered and employed a considerable body of knowledge regarding requisite fundamentals, parameters, proportions and a great deal more. In this way they have created cymbals with sound character and function to occupy a distinguished place in the world of drummers and percussionists.

In the past half-century Paiste have explored, tested and employed various alloys – as each alloy has its own specific potency for sound. It reveals itself through diverse manifestations of sound character and function in cymbals, depending on the treatment and the structuring of the craftsmanship. Thus, over the years the «Stambul», the «Formula 602», the «2002», and the «Signature» emerged, always as an answer and addition to prevailing musical trends.

Their continuous search for origin and truth in sound – energy, vibration, sensation – from manually malleable metals leads them back to the original bronze, with its primal and archaic sound potency, and which has remained preserved only in its traditional environment.

Through fateful events a dialog emerged with Murat Diril from Turkey, who has spend his life learning the time-honored art of manufacturing the traditional bronze for cymbals, and who has brought it to a high degree of maturity. Paiste agreed with Murat Diril that they should combine their respective experiences and abilities in mutual respect and appreciation.

For «Twenty» Cymbals, Paiste receive blanks of hand crafted bronze from Murat Diril, which are then treated and refined in Switzerland according to Paiste's skills and criteria for sound and function. In the process, from the alloying to the shaping to the completion of the cymbals, Paiste utilize hand craftsmanship exclusively. This is how «Twenty» cymbals come into being, cymbals of pure quality for the demanding requirements of drummers and percussionists.

Complete Twenty Range

Ride - 20"

Crash - 16", 18"

Hi Hats - 13", 14"

China - 16", 18"

Splash - 10"