zimbelhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zimbel_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezimbel, n.
Revised 2021

zimbelnoun

Music.
  1. 1888–
    A compound organ stop having a relatively high pitch; = cymbal n. 3.
    1. 1888
      Specification of the large organ at Wolfenbüttel... III. Choir...7. Zimbel, doubled.
      Musical World 12 May 370/1
    2. 1976
      An exuberant finale contrasts the zimbel with the cornet.
      Gramophone October 628/3
    3. 1980
      ‘Mixture’ was normally used to denote the Principal-scaled chorus Mixture as distinct from the high Zimbeln or the solo Cornets.
      New Grove Dictionary of Music vol. XIII. 791/1
    4. 1986
      Various newly invented, extremely high-pitched Zimbels.
      J. Brombaugh in G. Stauffer & E. May, J. S. Bach as Organist (2000) 42

zimbel, n. was revised in March 2021.

zimbel, n. was last modified in July 2023.