It is difficult to understand how or why he would have done this, as there are essential structural and proportional distinctions between viols and cellos.
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The result is an altogether more flamboyant feel to these performances, enhanced by the substitution of the great bassviolinstead of the viola da gamba.
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The pattern has a cello-shaped heel (rather than the truncated type used in viols with canted backs) and a cello-style pegbox that would appear to accommodate four pegs.
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The earliest vihuelas and viols, both plucked and bowed, all had sharp cuts to their waists, similar to the profile of a modern violin.
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With the exception of keyboards and lutes, all instruments were conceived and built this way, from rackets to recorders to sackbuts to crumhorns to viols.
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The accompanying orchestra is up-to-date, dispensing with the archaic viols and using violins, cellos, harps, lutes, theorbos, and harpsichords.
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Most houses of worships made do with a pitch pipe, or with a cello or bassviol.
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Ensembles like these show that theviolis making a comeback.
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It is scored for 5 vv (usually four viols and countertenor).
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The double bass is the only modern bowed string instrument that is tuned in fourths (like aviol), rather than fifths.
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It is more closely related, however, to the double-bass family, known as theviolfamily.
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Fretwork is known for its global touring and, as well as performances of early music, commissioning new compositions forviolconsort.
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Seaven passionate pavana, with divers other pavans, galiards, and almands, set forth for the lute, viols or violins, in five parts.
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From then on the villagers took pleasure in dancing and singing to the strains of hisviol.
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That instrument, called the violin, was much better than theviolits tone was like the human voice and could express every feeling and passion.
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