trimbas

Noun

trimba (plural trimbas)

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