‖ tromba marina
(ˈtrɔmba maˈrina)
[It., = marine trumpet.]
= trumpet marine, marine trumpet s.v. trumpet n. 2 b.
The identification in quot. 1776 is erron.
1776 [see sea-trumpet 2]. 1838 [see trumpet n. 2 b]. 1948 G. B. Shaw How to become Mus. 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. |