Viol
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viol-179-18711472
title:
Viol
text:
The viol, viola da gamba, or informally gamba, is any one of a 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. Frets on the viol are usually made of gut, tied on the fingerboard around the instrument's neck, to enable the performer to stop the strings more cleanly. Frets improve consistency of intonation and lend the stopped notes a tone that better
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Bowed, fretted and stringed instrument
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viol
date created:
2001-10-22T15:55:14Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T02:55:52Z
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image:
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13
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16