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Gamba   /gˈæmbə/   Listen
Gamba

noun
1.
Viol that is the bass member of the viol family with approximately the range of the cello.  Synonyms: bass viol, viola da gamba.





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"Gamba" Quotes from Famous Books



... one's relish even for the music of the violin, which is also a windy music, but the music of wind blowing sharply among the trees. It is on such instruments that Mr. Dolmetsch plays to us; and he plays to us also on the lute, the theorbo, the viola da gamba, the viola d'amore, and I know not how many varieties of those stringed instruments which are most familiar to most of us from the early Italian pictures in which whimsical little angels with crossed legs hold them to ...
— Plays, Acting and Music - A Book Of Theory • Arthur Symons
... gammon (O. Fr. gambon, Lat. gamba, 'joint of a leg'), the buttock or thigh of a hog salted and dried; the lower end ...
— Marmion • Sir Walter Scott


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