Trimba
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Trimba is a noun meaning (music) A sort of triangular drum.
Meaning
(music) A sort of triangular drum.
Example Sentences
Working in Braille, often composing under his cloak on the sidewalk, he wrote in an impressively wide range of styles: percussion-driven exotica (he made his own triangular drum-and-cymbal instrument, the trimba), avant-garde jazz, folkish madrigals, Bach-like neo-Baroque rounds and canons for chamber orchestra, symphonies for full orchestra, and a layered minimalism that influenced his young collaborators Steve Reich and Philip Glass .
Word Forms
- trimbas
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include triangle, tribrac, trigonon, tricordia, triole, trianglist.
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