According to Hugo Pinksterboer in his "The Cymbal Book", China is often regarded as the first country where cymbals were manufactured, dating back thousands of years ago.
WUHAN, CHINA has established itself as a capital well known for producing high quality cymbals and gongs since the 1700’s.
The cymbal-making process is a dramatic one that employs ancient techniques from the 1700’s. The elements of the traditional cymbal-bronze alloy (copper and tin) is melted at around 1100-1200C, then it is poured into casting iron moulds. When it cools off, these discs are taken out from the moulds. The discs are heated into red-hot discs, and forged by our smiths into flat blanks. In the next step the red-hot blanks are fed into rolling mills until they achieve their desired thickness. Then they are reheated and cut into a circle, pressed cup, and tempered. The new emerging cymbals are placed on a steel anvil, and hammered by our smiths. In this way the different sound colors are created.
The final step is lathing. The cymbals are attached onto a spinning lathe. One lathe man removes a thin layer of the cymbal’s top side with a long steel knife, creating the tonal grooves, then sends it to a second lathe man who repeats the process on the bottom side of the cymbal.

SILKEN cymbals was founded in 2005. As musical styles and tastes are continually evolving, so is the art of cymbal making.
Our innovation has resulted in an unprecedented level of choice from the most diverse offering of cymbal designs ever available and are described as “dark” or “bright,” “crisp” or “mellow,” “sweet” or “fierce”… “fast”… “clean”… “pure”… “rough”…. the list goes on.
SILKEN cymbals have been proved as finest genuine CHINA handcrafted cymbals.

Boutique cymbals are most often associated with Turkish tradition, but there are a number of modern smiths creating professional quality bronze in China using techniques that date back hundreds of years. Most of these Chinese cymbal makers have expanded their methods of manufacture to offer instruments that work in the rock, pop and country realms, but they’ve done so without sacrificing some of the complex, breathy character that defined the Eastern sound for so many centuries. The result is a fascinating balance of ultra-modern and traditional tones.

One of those Chinese cymbal producers is Wuhan-based SILKEN Cymbals. Founded by master cymbalsmith, Ken Cheng, SILKEN specializes in B20 cymbals designed for modern applications. The cymbals are forged, lathed and hammered using centuries-old techniques, but have a very contemporary feel, comparable to offerings from major manufacturers.

SILKEN CYMBALS offers a 1 year warranty on all their cymbals on the following criteria.
If the cymbal is:
(1) broken from inside for splash and crash
(2) broken from outside and inside for hihat and ride.

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