Tosco

Tosco was an Italian cymbal manufacturing company based in Italy. They produced cymbals from 1974 to 1985, closing their facility in 1986.

The grandson of Rosati, Buiani, co-founded with Giovanni Spadacini the Tosco company in 1974.
In 1979, Robert Zildjian took over Tosco and transformed it into a Sabian subsidiary: The originals say "Tosco". Then there were "Tosco by Sabian". Then there's "Sabian B20". All of these are made in Italy. Several years back, Sabian decided to revive Tosco as a cast & rolled budget brand out of the Canadian factory, but found that they were almost as expensive as the AA line to produce, so they were canned, and leftovers were sold out cheap. These cymbals sport a new, thin logo font and the earlier offerings have names like "Impact Crash", "Country Ride", "Super Splash", etc. One of the main innovation designed by Tosco is the Octagonal cymbal.
This particular design inspired the Sabian Rocktagon.

From Paolo Sburlati, Paiste distributor in Italy:
"There were several families in Pistoia, all bronze casters.
The Tronci family produced the big bronze gates at the entrance in Pistoia two centuries ago and they are still there today.
The boss of the families decided to get together and create a big cymbal factory called Unione Fabbricanti Italiani Piatti. All well at the beginning, but typical of hot blooded Tuscan people, they disagreed after short time and each boss went his own way, all creating new cymbal factories: Biasei with Spadaccini created Tosco, Roberto gave birth to Zanki and Luigi kept the name and the Ufip factory. They also started fighting each other on the market and this benefited the competition at the beginning."

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