trimba

Coined by its inventor, the American composer and poet Moondog (born Louis Thomas Hardin, 1916–1999).

trimba (plural trimbas)

1. (music) A sort of triangular drum.
   • 2007 October 28, John Strausbaugh, “Sidewalk Hero, on the Horns of a Revival”, in New York Times‎:

     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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