Scan 46
The Violin & Its Story: Or the History & Construction of the Violin, 1905
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1A few extracts from Praetorius on the family of bowed instruments cannot fail to interest the reader:—
3"Viols, Fiddles, are of two kinds: 1, Viole di gamba, 2, Viole de bracio or de brazzo, and they have these names because the first is held between the legs, for gamba is an Italian word, and means the leg, the legs . . . ; and the other is called de bracio, which is held on the arm. And the viol de gamba has six strings, tuned in fourths, and in the middle in thirds, like the six-stringed lute."
5"The Viol Bastarda is a sort of Viol de gamba, and is tuned like a tenor Viol de gamba, but the body is somewhat longer and larger."
7Praetorius's Tenor gamba is shown in Fig. 13.
9Fig. 13.
11THE TENOR GAMBA.
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