Paiste

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Paiste AG

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legal form Corporation
founding 1945
Seat Nottwil , Switzerland
management Erik Paiste
(Managing Director, Chairman of the Board of Directors )
Branch Musical instrument making
Website www.paiste.com

16-inch crash cymbals (bronze) from the Paiste brand
Paiste 2002 Sound Edge Hi-Hat (14 ")

Paiste is a Swiss family-owned company and manufacturer of drums - basin , based in Lucerne Nottwil . The company was founded in Germany in 1945 , but has been running the business from its headquarters in Switzerland since 1957. Alongside Zildjian and Sabian, Paiste is one of the world's leading cymbal manufacturers.

history

The musician and composer Michail Toomas Paiste founded a publishing house and a music shop in Saint Petersburg in 1901 , in which musical instruments were also manufactured and repaired. Business flourished until the upheaval in Russia in 1916, but the October Revolution had to cease business.

In 1917 he returned to his native Estonia and began to rebuild his business in Tallinn . Here he and his son Michail M. Paiste began to design and manufacture cymbals for concert and marching groups. In order to meet the tonal conceptions in modern music and the development of drums , the son began to develop his own concept, he manufactured cymbals according to the Turkish design, which he preferred to the Chinese. During this time he also developed the first gongs . The resulting instruments received awards and recognition and he began to export them to Europe , the USA and overseas.

During the Second World War , Michail M. Paiste was forced to leave Estonia in 1940 and began to rebuild the family business in Poland . The company struggled with the scarcity of raw materials caused by the war and the difficulty of maintaining international contacts.

Towards the end of the war, Paiste and his family left Poland as refugees in 1945, whereupon he rebuilt his business in Brunsbüttel ( Schleswig-Holstein ). Relocation of production to Burg (Dithmarschen) failed, so that in 1957 he founded a factory in Nottwil , Switzerland . The third generation , his sons Robert and Toomas, finally made the company headquarters in Nottwil the center of international business.

In 1981 a branch was established in the USA with the establishment of Paiste America. In 1995, after a 50-year absence, a branch was also set up in Estonia, and in the same year a plant in Spain . The German subsidiary is located in Schacht-Audorf .

Among the endorsers include drummer like Vinnie Colaiuta , Charlie Benante , Stewart Copeland , Nicko McBrain , Tico Torres , Jim Keltner and Ian Paice .

Series

  • Great: from the 1960s - entry-level area
  • Dixie: from 1960s - lower middle class
  • Stambul: 1960s - upper middle class. Was made in Germany as well as in Switzerland, with correspondingly modified impressions. Later Stambul 65 (with B-8 alloy) and Stambul 66 , with modified impressions.
  • Giant Beat: 1960s - top line
  • 101: from 1970s - successor to the Super
  • 404: from 1970s - successor to the Dixie
  • 505: from 1970s - successor to the Stambul
  • Super Formula 602 (1957 to 1959)
  • Formula 602: from 1960s - top series, priced higher than 2002. The cymbals were very thin, making them suitable for jazz drummers who often played with brooms. The cymbals were prone to damage when played hard, so they were also removed from the program. Formula 602 are cult objects, they are traded at enthusiast prices. In 2011 this series was reissued.
  • 2002: from 1971 - top series that is still made from B8 bronze today. Initially with a black print (Black Label), from the 1980s with a red print (Red Label).
  • Sound creation: from 1970s
  • Signature Line: from 1980s - top series
  • 200: from 1980s - entry-level area
  • 400: 1986 to 1995 - entry-level range
  • 1000: from 1980s - middle class, but below the 505
  • 1000 Rude: from 1980s - not to be confused with the Rude
  • 2000: 1986–1995 - produced together with the 3000s as a replacement for the temporarily discontinued 2002 series
  • 3000: 1986–1994 - like the 2000s, made from the same B8 bronze, similar to the 2002 series
  • Rude: from 1980s - “The original punk and metal sound”
  • Sound Formula: from 1990s - top series, the predecessor of today's Signature Line in sound and processing
  • Brass Tones: from 1990s - entry level
  • Alpha: inexpensive and high quality series
  • Visions: 1990s – 2000 - basins painted black, top range
  • Dimensions: series manufactured from 2000 to 2005; Top series, made from 2002 bronze with the manufacturing technique of the Signature Line series
  • 101 & 201: from 2000 - entry-level class
  • PST3 & PST5: from 2005 - entry-level or upper entry-level class
  • Twenty: from 2007 - application in pop, blues, soul, rock, jazz, big band, R&B and country
  • Twenty Masters Collection: from 2011 - a series of professional ride cymbals in various designs
  • Signature Precision: from 2013 - more affordable version of the classic Signature cymbals. Very similar in sound
  • Masters: from 2014 - renaming of the Twenty Masters Collection
  • PST8: from 2012 - brilliant finish
  • PST7: from 2014 - similar appearance to the 2002 series, in the price range of the PST8
  • PSTX: from 2015 - mid-range effect pools, mostly from 2002 bronze
  • 2002 Black: from 2016 - Black Big Beat, based on the 2002 series, but re-hammered. There are only singles (from 18 "to 24") and hi-hats (15 "and 16")

Artist under contract (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry of “Paiste AG” in the commercial register of the Canton of Lucerne ( memento of the original dated August 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lu.powernet.ch
  2. ↑ musicstore.de: Rude
  3. ↑ artists. Paiste, accessed July 8, 2020 .

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