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viol::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | string, bowed stringed instrument |
| Has types | gamba, bass viol, viola d'amore, viola da braccio, viola da gamba |
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Modern music is played on these instruments, but viol music can be played as well.
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The electric bass guitar is similar in tuning to the traditional double bass viol.
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Bagpipes, tin whistle, bassoon, viol da gamba, and the one I play best, double bass.
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Apollo is shown with his lyre, or sometimes a harp, viol or other stringed instrument.
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These other angels carry stringed instruments, including a small harp and a type of viol.
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Kussevitsky broke into music with the bass viol, making both himself and the instrument famous.
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In Rome he studied the lute, the viol and the harp, and began to acquire a reputation as a singer.
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Jenkins played the lute and was a virtuoso upon the lyra viol.
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The design of the bow and the manner of holding it descend from the older viol instrument family.
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- Any of a family of bowed stringed instruments that preceded the violin family
- Heb. nebel (Isa 5:12, R.V., "lute;" Isa 14:11), a musical instrument, usually rendered "psaltery" (q.v.)
- A family of string instruments popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They were superseded by the violin family. The standard types are treble/descant viol, tenor viol, and bass viol. A special type is the double-bass viol or violone, which is the ancestor of the modern double bass.
- The viol family is the forerunner of the violin family. They are still made today for period players. They differ from the violin family chiefly in having six strings instead of four, and adjustable gut frets on the neck.
- A family of stringed instruments (pardessus de viole, treble, alto, tenor, division bass, Lyra viol, Baryton (with sympathetic strings), consort bass and violone) featuring an arched belly, a flat back, sloping shoulders, light construction, deep ribs, sometimes C sound holes, a fretted ...
- N (viola da gamba) gambvjoloVIE
- Abbreviation of violino
