Paiste Zilko
Zilko
Contents
Introduction: 1935
Discontinued: 1963
In 1935 Paiste brought the lower-priced ZILKO series onto the market, making it the first cymbal manufacturer in the world to offer more than one cymbal quality.
These new cymbals are made in Estonia from special brass (MS63?) (1935-1948), then in Germany from nickel silver (1948-1960) as ZILKO STANDARD.
“PAISTE” is not found in the die, but above the logo, consisting of a crescent moon and a star, just the word “ZILKO”. At that time they did not use the company name.
Paiste confirmed that the brass Zilkos were made up until 1959.
It looks like the nickel-silver Zilko Standards/Paiste Standards were made from latter 1957 or 1958 to 1963.
A short time, which makes sense as these are rather difficult to find. No documented proof on the end date (yet) but it looks like the start date has been solidified.
The 1963 end date comes from the folks at Paiste Switzerland.
Background:
Innovation:
Alloy: Brass MS63 - Nickel Silver
Quality:
Production:
Applications:
Users:
Sound:
Information from: Timeline from nf drums Germany<<< WARNING: some of this info is out of date
Todd Little, Dan Garza
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