SKF NOTE: A “for the record” post of a 1980s Ed Soph Zildjian Cymbal Set-Up pamphlet.

Is this Soph’s current cymbal set-up? I don’t know. But it’s a snapshot of Soph’s playing career roughly 40 years ago.

Ed Soph was living in a small Garrison, NY house in the middle of the woods when we first met in the 1970s. My first interview was completed and accepted for publication around 1978.

MD was a quarterly publication back then. Before Ed’s interview could be published, a significant part of it was outdated.

Fortunately, Soph had moved to Connecticut, not far from my home. We visited several times to update his original interview which was published in 1985.

Ed was smart, funny, curious, methodical. He was a wonderful person to interview.