Definition of "gamba" [‖Gam•ba]

• See viola da gamba. (noun)

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• "Clearly, Juilliard is in the early-music business to stay: The $1 million program, which gives full-tuition scholarships to the students, will expand to include lute and gamba players in 2013; Bruce Kovner, Juilliard's board chair and the program's primary funder, recently endowed it in perpetuity."
• "The fragile tone of lead viola da gamba player Mikko Perkola, so delicate as to be non-present at times, undermined some of the interesting pieces that featured two gamba parts."
• "The other gamba player, Varpu Haavisto, had a stronger melodic presence in Bach's aria "Wie starb die Heldin so vergnügt.""