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Meaning of trimba | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

A sort of triangular drum.

Examples

“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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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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