tiorban.
/ˈtjɔːbə//tiˈɔːbə/ Music.
= theorbo n.
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1940 C. Sachs Hist. Mus. Instruments 372 The torban cannot have been copied from the Italian tiorbo. It is not only much clumsier, but different.
1960 Times 1 July 16/6 Vivaldi..used a varied assortment of instruments in his concerti grossi... One a regular menagerie..two mandolines, two tiorbe.., first violins [etc.].
1976 Early Music 4 410/2 Castaldi wrote duets for the tiorba to play with tiorbino, tuned an octave higher.
1988 Jrnl. Royal Mus. Assoc. 113 158 There is a Regina caeli for alto and ‘tiorba’.
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