Zimbelstern

The Zimbelstern (meaning "cymbal star" in German, and also spelled Cymbelstern, Zymbelstern, or Cimbalstern) is a "toy" organ stop consisting of a metal or wooden star or wheel on which several small bells are mounted. When engaged, the star rotates, producing a continuous tinkling sound.

(also spelled ZIMBELSTERN): A series of small bells, usually high-pitched and not tuned to specific intervals, which ring in a random sequence when activated.

The organ began making its way into churches around 900 CE. Exactly how and why remains an enigma, but it appears that the organ was first used for ceremonial purposes. By the 1400s, the use of organs was well established in monastic churches and cathedrals throughout Europe.

How sound is produced. A pipe organ feeds wind into pipes, causing the air to oscillate and produce a sound. The pipes stand in line above the box referred to as the wind-chest, with wind fed from below into the pipes the organist wishes to use to produce sound.

Definition of 'organ stop' 1. a set of organ pipes allowed to sound as a group by stopping all others. 2. a knob or other device that controls the stop function on an organ.

noun. variants or less commonly thirty-two-foot stop or 32-foot stop. : an organ stop sounding the pitches two octaves lower than those normally associated with the organ's keys and having the C four octaves below middle C as its lowest note.

percussion instruments Bells may be categorized as idiophones, instruments sounding by the vibration of resonant solid material, and more broadly as percussion instruments.

A carillon is an outdoor musical instrument consisting of a minimum of 23 bells and as many as 70. A group of bells numbering 22 or fewer is known as a chime, such as the set of 10 bells in Phelps Stokes Chapel. Chime bells are normally used to play single-line melodies.

“It's often in a church, so for people it represents moments of joy, of pain, and of prayer; the music of the organ accompanies all these moments.”

organ, in music, a keyboard instrument, operated by the player's hands and feet, in which pressurized air produces notes through a series of pipes organized in scalelike rows. The term organ encompasses reed organs and electronic organs but, unless otherwise specified, is usually understood to refer to pipe organs.

: with all or most of the stops drawn so that the full power of the instrument is heard. often used as a direction in music.

The chord organ was invented by Laurens Hammond in 1950. It provided chord buttons for the left hand, similar to an accordion. Other reed organ manufacturers have also produced chord organs, most notably Magnus from 1958 to the late 1970s.