Vielle
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The vielle is a European bowed stringed instrument used in the medieval period, similar to a modern violin but with a somewhat longer and deeper body, three to five gut strings, and a leaf-shaped pegb
Modern reconstruction of a vielle depicted in a painting by Hans Memling
Mozarabic miniature of a Beato dated around 900-950 in Spain. BNE Vitr. 14/1. Folio 130r.
Image cropped from the Cantigas de Santa Maria (codex MS T.I. 1). Two vielles (left) and a citole. Spain, c. 1280.
Vielle or vihela de arco in the Cantigas de Santa Maria, Codex of musicians, circa 1280 A.D. Image demonstrates playing upright on the musician's knee.
Bowed string instrument
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Bowed string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by a bow rubbing the strings. The bow rubbing the string causes vibration which the instrument emits as sound.
Niccolò Paganini playing the violin, by Georg Friedrich Kersting (1785–1847)
Josephine van Lier plays a violoncello piccolo, a five-string variant of the Baroque cello, during a recording session of Bach's 6th Cello Suite.
Karl Friedrich Abel playing the bass Viola da Gamba, by Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788)
Violinmaker Hans Benning of Benning Violins creating a Baryton in Los Angeles, 1963.