A string orchestra is an orchestra consisting solely of a string section made up of the bowed strings used in Western Classical music. The instruments of such an orchestra are most often the following

The String Sextet in D minor "Souvenir de Florence", Op. 70, is a string sextet scored for two violins, two violas, and two cellos composed in the summer of 1890 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The work,