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    Robert Zildjian, Sabian cymbal manufacturer, dies

    MyFoxBoston.com (Dedham, Massachusetts)
    Mar 28, 2013

    BOSTON (AP) - Robert "RZ" Zildjian, founder of the Sabian Inc. musical
    cymbal manufacturing company, has died. He was 89.

    Sabian announced Zildjian's death on its website Thursday. The firm
    was closed until Monday and the company announcement had no details
    about his death.

    Zildjian founded Sabian in 1981 after a legal battle with his brother,
    Armand, over their inheritance of the family business, Avedis Zildjian
    Co., a major cymbal maker. The companies remain competitors.

    The family's U.S. business was founded in the Boston area in 1928 by
    their father, Armenian immigrant Avedis Zildjian, and a
    great-uncle. The rock 'n' roll era brought an expanding demand for its
    percussion products.

    RZ Zildjian began working for his father as a teenager and set up a
    subsidiary, AZCO, in Meductic, New Brunswick, Canada, in 1968.

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