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- noun Plural form of
gambist .
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Examples
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From the year 1610 until 1810 the list of those who played in public is extremely short, numbering only about twenty, and of these several were gambists.
Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday Lahee, Henry C 1899
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Elin is particularly interested in the way gambists (and other instrumentalists) of the time used improvisation, much like jazz musicians do today.
Progressive Bloggers 2008
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