Adlung has the most to say about the Cymbelscharf:

[Cymbel] is almost identical with a very small [high-pitched] mixture, or with the Scharp or Scharf; though the Scharf is usually composed somewhat differently.
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Because, as has just been mentioned, it is often the same as Scharf, the name Cymbelscharf is also found, for example in the Kreuzkirche in Dresden, where there is also a separate Scharf as well. Thus it must sound like a Cymbel, or there is some other distinction, or they do not stand on the same manual. There is indeed a Scharf Cymbel at St. Petri in Lübeck, as well as at the Kirche zu Unsrer Lieben Frau there; see Praetorius. In the Pfarrkirche organ at Königsberg this Cymbelscharf is actually 4 ranks, but [only] 3 ranks at St. Dominicus in Prague, the usual size at which the Cymbel is found.

Sumner says only “sometimes a four- or five-rank stop, known as Zymbel-scharf, was made.” Irwin mentions Scharfzimbel in a list of mixture stops under the heading “Diapason Chorus”, with no definition; we assume it to be a synonym.

Examples

All known examples of Scharfcymbel and Scharfzimbel are given below. No examples of Cymbelscharf or Zymbelscharf are known. Contributions welcome.

Scharfzimbel III, Kronpositiv; Christuskirche, Koblenz, Germany; Peter 1953.

Scharfzimbel IV, Brustwerk; St. Andreaskirche, Hildesheim, Germany; von Beckerath.

Scharfzimbel V, Oberwerk; Schauspielhauses, Berlin, Germany; Jehmlich.

Scharf-Zimbel III 1/2', Great; First Baptist Church, Jackson, Missouri, USA; Keates-Geissler 1990.

Scharf-Zimbel IV 1', Choir; First Baptist Church, Jackson, Missouri, USA; Keates-Geissler 1990.

Scharfcymbel IV 2/3', Brustwerk; MarienOrgel, Abbey, Ottobeuren, Germany; Steinmeyer 1957.

Scharfcymbel III 2/3', Hauptwerk; Stadtpfarrkirche, MariaeHimmelfahrt, Landsberg, Germany; Schmid 1983.

Scharf-Cymbel III, Positiv; First Presbyterian Church, Buffalo, New York, USA; Noehren 1969.

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