Look up: viol

1. Viol
   The viol was a stringed musical instrument of the same form as the violin, but larger, and having six strings, to be struck with a bow, and the neck furnished with frets for stopping the strings.
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2. viol
   [n] - any of a family of bowed stringed instruments that preceded the violin family
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3. viol
   this family preceded the violin family,now used by students of the older music Category: General • a generic name for gambas of very small scale and keen tone. Category: General
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4. Viol
   Vi'ol noun [ French viole ; confer Pr. viola , viula , Spanish , Portuguese , & Italian viola , Late Latin vitula ; of uncertain origin; perhaps from Latin vitulari to celebrate a festival, keep holiday, be joy...
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5. viol
   noun any of a family of bowed stringed instruments that preceded the violin family
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6. Viol
   • (n.) A large rope sometimes used in weighing anchor. • (n.) A stringed musical instrument formerly in use, of the same form as the violin, but larger, and having six strings, to be struck with a bow, and the neck furnished with frets for stopping the strings.
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7. viol
   bowed, stringed musical instrument used principally in chamber music of the 16th to the 18th century. The viol shares with the Renaissance lute the ... [6 related articles]
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8. Viol
   The viol (also known as the viola da gamba) is any one of a family of bowed, fretted and stringed musical instruments developed in the mid-late 15th century and used primarily in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. The viol family is related to and descends primarily from the Renaissance vihuela, ...
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9. viol
   viol, family of bowed stringed instruments, the most important ensemble instruments from the 15th to the 17th cent. The viol's early history is indefinite, but it is recognizable in depictions from as early as the 11th cent. During the second half of the 17th cent. it lost its dominant position to t...
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10. viol
    Member of a Renaissance family of bowed six-stringed musical instruments with flat backs, fretted fingerboards, and narrow shoulders that flourished particularly in England about 1540–1700, before their role was taken by the violins. Normally performing as an ensemble or consort, their reper...
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11. viol
    a ten string (five double string) guitar originally brought to Brazil by the Jesuits. Viola caipira translates as country mans guitar. It is popular for folk music in both north and south Brazil.
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12. viol
    acoustic guitar.
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