Seifried’s impromptu cymbal showroom—a small subset of his growing hand-made inventory—has expanded to fill his Mason living room. Steve Seifried doesn’t know how many instruments he owns. The number ...

Artisans in Istanbul have been hand-crafting cymbals the same way for more than 600 years. Emrah Sipahi explains how cymbal-smiths forge and hammer them into shape. The French president met the ...