One family, one roof, since 2008.
Hand-hammered B20 bronze cymbals from Turkey’s largest cymbal production facility, in Samsun. This is who makes them, and where.
Hammered by hand, so no two Diril cymbals ever sound the same.
Ibrahim Diril, founder
About usA family, a furnace and a hammer.
Diril was founded in Samsun in 2008 by Ibrahim Diril. He learned the craft in Istanbul, and for years the cymbals he hammered went out under other names, Meinl and Paiste among them. In 2008 he decided his work should carry his own name.
Today he works side by side with his four sons in Turkey’s largest cymbal production facility. Every cymbal is cast from B20 bronze in our own foundry and shaped by hand, from the first pour to the last pass on the lathe.
We share our production openly, even its roughest parts, and keep it as handmade as possible. Every Diril carries our founder’s signature.
Samsun, Turkey
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Turkey’s largest cymbal production facility.
Every Diril is cast, rolled, hammered and lathed here, under one roof in Samsun.
How it’s made.
Seven steps from fire to sound. About three days and at least seven processes, all of it by hand.
Watch it on the home pageMelting
Copper melts at 1,085°C, tin at 232°C. Melted together, eighty parts copper to twenty parts tin, they become B20 bronze.
Casting
The molten bronze is poured into a small, thick disc. Around 15 cm wide and 5 cm thick, every cymbal starts here.
Rolling
Heated again and again, the disc is rolled out pass after pass until it reaches its size.
Tempering
A heat treatment in the oven gives the bronze its strength and its spring.
Creating the bell
The bell is formed at the centre. Its shape decides much of how the cymbal will speak.
Hammering
Thousands of strikes by hand. This is where a cymbal finds its character, and why no two are the same.
Lathing
Tonal grooves are cut on the lathe and the final weight is set. Then we listen, and only then does it leave the factory.