dieze a écrit :mais tu viens sur les forums juste faire ta pub gratuite
Yes Dieze, I do a lot of self-promotion. But let me tell you something.
I've been hammering cymbals for 20 years now (that's about as long as Spizzichino). The difference is that until about 3 years ago, I never told people about it and I didn't do any promotion at all. So nobody knew about me, but everybody knows Spizzichino.
But finally some drummers convinced me to speak out about my work. At first I didn't want to do that, because, actually, I
hate promotion and advertising.
But I'm now 42 years old so if I ever want to reach something I have no alternative than to speak about my work NOW.
However, if it was my intention to make big money with cymbals I would work differently: instead of using expensive cymbals from Zildjian/Sabian/Ufip as blanks for my creations, I would buy cheap Turkish blanks like Spizzichino does. If you buy large quantities of Turkish blanks you can get them almost for nothing, perhaps 15 to 30 euro for a 20 " blank. And then hammer the blanks and sell the cymbals for 500 euro. THAT'S making profit and being commercial.
But I don't want to use Turkish blanks because the quality of the alloy is very impure. Turkish bronze is made from old recycled electrical copper wire. Everybody knows that Turkish cymbals generally break much easier than Zildjian, Sabian or Ufip cymbals. So I don't want to sell cymbals that break easily. But Zildjian, Sabian or Ufip
do not sell blanks, they only sell cymbals. So to get the best and most durable alloy I am obliged to buy their cymbals. I don't get any discount, cymbals cost me just as much as if you would buy them. So in all honesty I can tell you, my profit is very low. And when I hammer cymbals for other people, I do not even charge half of my hours. I can't continue working so cheap for much longer, but I have to do it to get my work known.
I cannot make promotion like a big company can. I cannot give endorsements for free to well-known drummers in return for promotion. I have no money to make publicity. So YES, I tell people about my work on forums. How would you do it? But I think my promotion is justified: I am proud of every cymbal I make. If I would make cymbals the way the big companies do it, I would NOT be proud because cymbals can sound much better if you spend MUCH more work on them.
But if you are so critical of the self-promotion of a guy like me who tries to make really good instruments all by himself, who spends about 20 times as much work on a cymbal than a big company does, but doesn't make much money, then why are you not sceptical about the fact that most of the musician-forums are actually just a part of the big machine that promotes the big companies ??? Your friend Ferid is part of that big commercial machine. But he bans a small guy like me who is passionate about making high-quality instruments but hardly makes a profit.
Think about that before you blindly believe what Ferid tells you.
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Before it sounded very hollow, with a bad stick response and the harmonics clashed.
^^
plus sombre évidemment que mes Paiste, elle sonne terriblement bien.
Pour ma part, en tout cas, je suis de ce côté-là des cymbales, sijpuidir. 
(Pas tapper Cap'taine...moi simplement vouloir informations..)
C'est de l'excellent boulot!!