trimbaEtymologyCoined by its inventor, the American composer and poet Moondog (born Louis Thomas Hardin, 1916–1999).trimba means A sort of triangular drum. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.nounA sort of triangular drum.“Working in Braille, often composing under his cloak on the sidewalk, he wrote in an impressively wide range of styles: percussion-driven exotica (he made his own triangular drum-and-cymbal instrument, the trimba), avant-garde jazz, folkish madrigals, Bach-like neo-Baroque rounds and canons for chamber orchestra, symphonies for full orchestra, and a layered minimalism that influenced his young coll”