Examples of viol

• It is difficult to understand how or why he would have done this, as there are essential structural and proportional distinctions between viols and cellos.

• The result is an altogether more flamboyant feel to these performances, enhanced by the substitution of the great bass viol instead of the viola da gamba.

• The pattern has a cello-shaped heel (rather than the truncated type used in viols with canted backs) and a cello-style pegbox that would appear to accommodate four pegs.

• The earliest vihuelas and viols, both plucked and bowed, all had sharp cuts to their waists, similar to the profile of a modern violin.

• With the exception of keyboards and lutes, all instruments were conceived and built this way, from rackets to recorders to sackbuts to crumhorns to viols.

• The accompanying orchestra is up-to-date, dispensing with the archaic viols and using violins, cellos, harps, lutes, theorbos, and harpsichords.

• Most houses of worships made do with a pitch pipe, or with a cello or bass viol.

• Ensembles like these show that the viol is making a comeback.

• It is scored for 5 vv (usually four viols and countertenor).

• The double bass is the only modern bowed string instrument that is tuned in fourths (like a viol), rather than fifths.

• It is more closely related, however, to the double-bass family, known as the viol family.

• Fretwork is known for its global touring and, as well as performances of early music, commissioning new compositions for viol consort.

• Seaven passionate pavana, with divers other pavans, galiards, and almands, set forth for the lute, viols or violins, in five parts.

• From then on the villagers took pleasure in dancing and singing to the strains of his viol.

• That instrument, called the violin, was much better than the viol its tone was like the human voice and could express every feeling and passion.