Global Alchemy: Bryant students guide Zildjian through international trade tumult
January 05, 2026
January 05, 2026
SMITHFIELD, Rhode Island, Jan. 5 -- Bryant University issued the following news:
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Global Alchemy: Bryant students guide Zildjian through international trade tumult
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Metalsmith Avedis Zildjian was a student of change. A maker of musical instruments for the court of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, he also dabbled in alchemy: the art of transmutation and transfiguration.
Yet it was through science and the labor of his own han . . .
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Global Alchemy: Bryant students guide Zildjian through international trade tumult
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Metalsmith Avedis Zildjian was a student of change. A maker of musical instruments for the court of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, he also dabbled in alchemy: the art of transmutation and transfiguration.
Yet it was through science and the labor of his own han . . .