qachel

plural qachels

1. A small gong or bell used as a liturgical accompaniment in Ethiopian places of worship.

   Priest Ya’qob held a small metal gong called the qachel in one hand and the small metal stick with which it was struck in the other.

   1994, Kay Kaufman Shelemay, A Song of Longing: An Ethiopian Journey, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 74

   2 more examples

   The non-Jewish Ethiopian qachel differs from Beta Israel instruments. It is a small bell used for both religious and secular music of the orthodox Ethiopian Christian.

   2013, Tudor Parfitt, Emanuela Trevisan Semi, editors, The Jews of Ethiopia: The Birth of an Elite, Routledge, page ??

   The melodies may be pentatonic or based on intervals of a third, and may be accompanied by a small drum called nagarīt and a gong called qachel.

   2016, Joseph P. Swain, Historical Dictionary of Sacred Music, 2nd edition, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 293