Dry SMOKY Istanbul Mehmet 19” LEGEND DARK Sizzle Ride 1772 g DARK CONTROLLED

I can guaranteed happiness!  This is one of the nicest sounding controlled and mellow dry, smoky 19s” you will hear.  It makes a K Cons play like a Paiste Heavy Ride.  And hardly anyone actually has this beauty! It’s the perfect controlled Main Ride or Left Side Crash Ride.  This Istanbul sounds like a 70-year-old cymbal. Istanbul’s LEGEND Series (also known as the MEL LEWIS Series) is, well, legendary.  It has long been one of Agop and Mehmet’s best-selling series. It put them on the map 30 years ago. Mehmet expanded the series and this LEGEND DARK is one of my favorites. As you can see it has a wide-lathed, alternate gold and brown top side - like a Turk mixed with a Traditional, while the underside is fully lathed like a Traditional or regular Legend series.  Very Agop Sig Ish. Or Bosphorus New Orleans but darker. The result is a stunning, semi-dry stick attack with a smoky, organic, fairly complex wash - but that wash dissipates fairly quickly compliments of the 19” size.  This