| 单词 | molimo trumpet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmolimo trumpet 1. A type of wooden trumpet-like musical instrument used by the Mbuti people of the Ituri forest (Democratic Republic of Congo). Also molimo trumpet. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > other wind instruments > [noun] gora1822–4 drone pipe1905 didgeridoo1924 jug1946 molimo1957 melodica1961 yidaki1977 1957 P. Schebesta in Man 57 63/1 Among the Pygmies themselves tusumba primarily means the huge trumpet used in their secret society... Its proper name, however, is molino in this region where the Bambuti speak Bira. 1960 C. Turnbull in Zaïre 14 309 The term molimo is also used by both negroes and pygmies to refer to a musical instrument. 1961 Listener 30 Nov. 937/1 The extraordinary music of the molimo, the secret male musical instrument which no woman or child is meant to know about or see. 1961 C. M. Turnbull Forest People xv. 250 The molimo trumpet..took up the song. 1984 New Grove Dict. Musical Instruments Molimo, wooden trumpet of the Mbuti pygmies of Zaire, used for signalling. 1998 J. Cutler Song of Molimo xv. 81 At the St. Louis World's Fair [of 1904], a tube covered with animal skins and called ‘molimo’ is used by the Pygmy, Autobank, to make what he thinks is music. < as lemmas |
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