Crossword-Solution: GAMBA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gamba | n. | A viola da gamba. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “GAMBA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Viola da __ | 1 answer |
| Viola da ___ (bass viol) | 1 answer |
| Viola da ___ (old stringed instrument) | 1 answer |
| South American opossum | 4 answers |
| Old stringed instrument | 7 answers |
| Viola | 8 answers |
| A MEMBER OF THE VIOL FAMILY WITH APPROXIMATELY THE RANGE OF A VIOLA | 10 answers |
| A MUSICIAN WHO PLAY THE BASS VIOL | 10 answers |
| BASS viol | 12 answers |
| Viol | 12 answers |
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Sentences with GAMBA (5)
Remember, Emperor, that the peoples who hold our faith shall possess all the Western Universe and during eight hundred and eleven years shall spread their faith throughout the whole world.’ “Thus it happened on this same day many centuries ago! Lama Turjo Gamba did not return to Tibet but lived here in Ta Kure, where there was then only a small temple.
Caesar’s plans with regard to Florence were now no longer a mystery: since the month of January he had sent to Pisa ten or twelve hundred men under the Command of Regniero della Sassetta and Piero di Gamba Corti, and as soon as the conquest of the Romagna was complete, he had further despatched Oliverotto di Fermo with new detachments.
More, he was a performer himself, and played the baryton, a stringed instrument not unlike the viola-da-gamba, in general use up to the end of the eighteenth century.
Gamba, it appeared, owed his early schooling to a Jesuit priest who, visiting the foundling asylum, had been struck by the child's quickness, and had taken him home and bred him to be a clerk.
Trescorre then obtained his appointment as assistant to the Duke's librarian, a good old priest engrossed in compiling the early history of Pianura from the ducal archives; and this post Gamba had now filled for two years.
Quotes with GAMBA (3)
Viva fui in silvis sum dura occisa securi dum vixi tacui mortua dulce cano” is inscribed on the fingerboard of a 16th-century viola da gamba made by Kaspar Tieffenbrucker. It translates, “I was alive in the woods; I was cut down by the cruel axe. While I lived I was silent; In death I sweetly sing.
Inscribed on the fingerboard of a viola da gamba by Kaspar Tieffenbrucker: "Viva fui in silvis sum dura occisa securi dum vixi tacui mortua dulce cano." (I was alive in the woods; I was cut down by the cruel axe. While I lived I was silent; In death I sweetly sing.)
It’s like an electroacoustic, surround-sound cello gamba. It embodies everything that fascinates me the most - acoustics, playing instruments, digital processing, movement of sound. Somehow, everything is combined in Ómar.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chicago Tribune, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (2001–2015).