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