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The viola da gamba (), or viol, or informally gamba, is a bowed and fretted string instrument that is played (i.e. "on the leg"). It is distinct from the later violin, or ; and it is any one of the earlier viol family of bowed, fretted, and stringed instruments with hollow wooden bodies and pegboxes where the tension on the strings can be increased or decreased to adjust the pitch of each of the strings. Although treble, tenor and bass were most commonly used, viols came in different sizes, including (high treble, developed in 18th century), treble, alto, small tenor, tenor, bass and contrabas
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Vinony files it under Basso continuo instruments, Renaissance instruments and Viol family instruments.
Its subject is documented across 46 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Instrument.name
- Viola da gamba
- Instrument.names
- gamba (informal)
- Instrument.image
- File:Viola Da Gamba Front and Side.png
- Instrument.background
- string
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs
- 321.322-71
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs_desc
- Composite chordophone sounded by a bow
- Instrument.developed
- Late 15th century from the vihuela
- Instrument.related
- Arpeggione Bass guitar Byzantine lyra Guitar Lute Vihuela Violone
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- GambeUilderks.png
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- Commons category
- Viols
- Hornbostel-Sachs classification
- 321.322-71
- topic's main category
- Category:Viols
- different from
- vielle
- P8168
- Ambang
- facet of
- viol family
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