gimbrin.
/ˈɡɪmbri/ A small Moorish guitar played by plucking the strings with a piece of dry palmetto leaf; also, a player of this instrument.
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1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 214/1 The resonance-body of the Gunibry is made of a bottle-pumpkin cut longwise, and covered with sheep skin.
1894 G. Montbard Among Moors 7 He sings in a sad broken voice,..accompanying the song on a sort of square guitar, a gimbry.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 18 Feb. 2/3 The slender fanatical singer, Whose fingers were skilled on the gimbri.
1907 F. Campbell Shepherd of Stars xv. 177 The Gimbri wagged his [head] from side to side.
1954 Grove's Dict. Music (ed. 5) V. 506/2 Those [instruments] of popular acceptance are the pandore (guníbrí), [etc.].
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