tromba marinan.
/trɒmbə məˈriːnə/ = trumpet marine, marine trumpet at trumpet n. 2b. The identification in quot. 1776 is erroneous.
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1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 522 The Concha, Tromba Marina, or Sea-Trumpet.
1838 G. F. Graham Ess. Theory & Pract. Musical Composition App. 78 In Europe, in the last century, the only remnant of the most ancient monochord was the tromba-marina (trumpet-marine).
1948 G. B. Shaw How to become Musical Critic (1960) 325 I should rather like to hear the tromba marina.
1976 D. Munrow Instruments Middle Ages & Renaissance 30/2 A French sculpture of the twelfth century gives us our first glimpse of the tromba marina: the three-sided body is about four feet long and tapers towards the pegbox... By the fifteenth century it had acquired two strings of unequal length.
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