Longest running family business
- Who
- Zildjian Cymbal Co.
- When
- 2008
The Zildjian Cymbal Co. was founded in 1623 in Constantinople. The family-run business was founded fourteen generations ago by an alchemist called Avedis I, who discovered a metal alloy which would create durble cymbals. The sultan at the time renamed him Zildjian which roughly translates to "Cymbalsmith".