Roland Meinl musical instruments

Roland Meinl musical instruments
legal form	GmbH & Co. KG
founding	1951
Seat	Gutenstetten , Germany
management	Reinhold Meinl, Alexander Meinl
Number of employees	140 (2010)
sales	€ 40 million (2010)
Branch	Musical instrument making
Website	meinldistribution.eu/

Roland Meinl Musikinstrumenten is a German manufacturer of drum kits and percussion instruments based in Gutenstetten, Bavaria . Cymbals are offered under the Meinl Cymbals brand . Meinl is one of the four major cymbal producers alongside Zildjian (USA), Sabian (Canada) and Paiste (Switzerland). Every fourth basin is produced by Meinl. The “Meinl Percussion” brand covers other percussion instruments, while children's instruments are offered under the Nino Percussion brand . Meinl is also a distributor for Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia for various musical instrument brands such as Ibanez and Mesa / Boogie .

history

China basin from Meinl

Pandeiro from Meinl

Ibo drum

Roland Meinl first made wind instruments. In 1951 Meinl Cymbals began as a one-man business in a basement workshop. In the 1950s and 60s he also sold in other European countries and in the USA. Until 1963 he made the cymbals alone.

In 1969 the company moved to the newly built company headquarters. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, it produced the first series of cymbals, Romen, Romen Mark 70 and Romen Mark 74 . In the mid-1970s, the King Beat series was the first professional cymbal to be launched on the market. Production was finally switched from manual labor to hammering robots. The first signature line, Tri Tonal, was developed with Billy Cobham .

Roland's son Reinhold took part in the company's business from the mid-1970s.

In the 1990s, production was steadily expanded. A cooperation with a Turkish manufacturer led to the development of the successful Mb20 and Byzance series.

In 1996 the Classics series for the affordable price segment was presented. In 2003 the company moved from Neustadt an der Aisch to a new production building in Gutenstetten, five kilometers away , where all cymbals (except Byzance, MB20 and Symphonic ) are manufactured.

Meinl uses six different bronze alloys, according to its own information as the only manufacturer in the world. Production takes place in Gutenstetten, Turkey, Indonesia and Thailand.

Various Meinl basins

Percussion instruments

Meinl manufactures, among other things, congas , bongos , djembén , darbukas , timbales , tambourines , cajóns , cowbells , carillon and shakers .

Basin series

Byzance: Professional cymbals with traditional sound made from B20 alloy, handcrafted in Turkey
Classics: middle class cymbals made of B8 bronze
Generation X: innovative pool, along with artists like Benny Greb and Thomas Lang developed
HCS: Inexpensive entry-level cymbals made from an MS63 brass alloy
HCS Bronze: Pre-professional cymbal made of B8 bronze alloy (92% copper, 8% tin), also available as a cymbal set, successor to the MCS series
M-Series: Professional cymbals made of B20 alloy (80% copper, 20% tin), automatically hammered in the Meinl factory in Germany
Mb10: basin made of B10 bronze alloy (90% copper, 10% tin)
Mb20: Professional basins made of B20 bronze alloy (80% copper, 20% tin, traces of silver)
MB8: Professional cymbals made of B8 bronze alloy (92% copper, 8% tin, traces of silver), made with high-tech computer hammers, bright, penetrating sound
MCS: middle class / pre-professional cymbals made of B8 bronze alloy (92% copper, 8% tin), also available as a cymbal set (today HCS bronze)
Pure Alloy: machine hammered cymbals (since 2020 also as Pure Alloy Custom)
Soundcaster (Custom and Fusion): Professional cymbals made of a B12 bronze alloy (88% copper, 12% tin, traces of silver)