The bass is actually a member of the gamba family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edgar Meyer, Multi-Purpose Maestro] Reference

And Dan Hatches (ph) built me this beautiful gamba.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edgar Meyer, Multi-Purpose Maestro] Reference

Yet a fourth distant relative of vetiver, gamba grass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 11] Reference

If you tune the G down to an F# it plays like a viola da gamba.    From Wordnik.com.  [About that famous guitar chord.] Reference

I think slimmeroftheyea should start playing the viola da gamba again.    From Wordnik.com.  [That renaissance beat, boy] Reference

Uri is well known in Israel as a performer both on recorder and viola de gamba.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference

Gambero is the Italian word for prawn or shrimp, and gamba is the word for leg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Can’t … stop … gamba-ing] Reference

For instance, a viola da gamba is sort of cello, and a rebec is a kind of violin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Age of Publicity #7] Reference

Those are virtues for a vetiverlike hedge, but gamba grass has severe limitations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 11] Reference

The unusual combination of male voice with violas da gamba proves highly attractive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Album reviews: 17th century works for viola da gamba] Reference

LYDEN: Because we like to be all things to all listeners, just refresh us on the gamba.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edgar Meyer, Multi-Purpose Maestro] Reference

Mr. MEYER: Okay, well, there is gamba, mandolin guitar, Dobro, piano and bass and banjo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edgar Meyer, Multi-Purpose Maestro] Reference

 She had a body like an upside-downviola da gamba-without the sound holes, frets or strings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nuptial Indemnity] Reference

A Baroque orchestra, he says, would have "20 violins, 10 cellos, 10 violas, but only one viola da gamba.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blurring Traditional Boundaries] Reference

I am hoping that we can collarboate with lutenist GH and gamba player DM in performing some of these works.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music on the Horizons] Reference

Elgar without vibrato seems like Saariaho on violas da gamba, maybe not just another way of playing the music.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Famous Norrington Elgar] Reference

He also learned, thanks to his mother, three musical instruments, including the flute, violin, and the viola da gamba.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seishin] Reference

If you want to assemble an authentic Italian appetizer of prosciutto and melon, it'll cost you uno braccio e una gamba.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Price of Good Taste] Reference

As usual there was no lack of first rate soloists tonight with Xenia Löffler on oboe and Jan Freiheit on viola da gamba.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rot und Schwarz] Reference

The other gamba player, Varpu Haavisto, had a stronger melodic presence in Bach's aria "Wie starb die Heldin so vergnügt.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Review: Helsinki Baroque Orchestra at Library of Congress] Reference

Their focus is the viola da gamba -- the not-quite-cello-size viol, with six strings tuned in fourths and a major third in the middle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Album reviews: 17th century works for viola da gamba] Reference

There are about 100 other members of the genus Andropogon, and some of those may prove better than gamba grass as erosion-hedge plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 11] Reference

He is accompanied by harpsichord, lute and viola da gamba.    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

Do the same for organ, viola da gamba, and other instruments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macworld] Reference

Savall also showcases Telemann and Handel on the viola da gamba.    From Wordnik.com.  [PaloAltoOnline.com] Reference

In the corner was a viola da gamba, and against the walls a harpsichord and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evelyn Innes] Reference

The piece is for madrigal choir, viola da gamba, harpsichord and vibraphone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opera Today] Reference

The Cavalier, a viola da gamba of anger, pegged his string of bluster tighter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel] Reference

Lute or theorbo, viola or viol di gamba, treble or bass, came alike to his hand and ear.    From Wordnik.com.  [London Pride Or When the World Was Younger] Reference

THE SECOND CITY MUSICK with others in a concert of English Renaissance viola da gamba music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

He also loaned him a fiddle and presented him a viola da gamba, and often invited him to dinner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists] Reference