Viola
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The viola is a string instrument of the violin family, and is usually bowed when played. The viola is slightly larger than the violin and has a lower sound. Since the 18th century, it has been the mid
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Viola close up of bridge
Oak Leaf viola, Eric Benning, Benning Violins
Playing a 43 cm (17 in) viola in 3rd position.
String instrument
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In musical instrument classification, string instruments, or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer strums, plucks, strikes or sounds the stri
Viola
…The viola ( vee-OH-lə, () Italian: ) is a string instrument of the violin family, and is usually bowed when played. The viola is slightly larger than the violin and has a lower sound. Since the 18th century, it…
Various string instruments; mostly lute family instruments
Bow Harp or Harp Lute, West Africa
Hellenistic banquet scene from the 1st century AD, Hadda, Gandhara. Lute player far right.
Spanish stele of a boy with a pandura.