ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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 .

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include triangle, tribrac, trigonon, tricordia, triole, trianglist.

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