Meinl Byzance 18” Extra Dry Thin Crash Cymbal

$325 Meinl Byzance 18” extra dry thin crash. Factory demo. Cymbal is gorgeous! Trashy overtones, soft response with a fast decay creating an overall dryness and darkness.
Unique lightweight crash cymbal with an extremely dry and low-pitched sound that cuts.

Dark and dirty. These are the words that describe the Byzance Extra-Dry cymbals. The surface is completely unlathed and untreated (crashes are lathed on the bottom). Just raw hand-hammered bronze--for a raw earthy sound. There is no wash. The extremely short sustain and stick definition come from the deep hammer marks layered with a more traditional hammering.