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A viol (which rhymes with 'smile') is a bowed, fretted string instrument which typically has six strings. Viols come in many shapes and sizes but all are held vertically between the legs. Hence, the Italians called the instrument 'viola da gamba,' literally a 'leg fiddle'!

viola, stringed musical instrument, the tenor of the violin family. It is built in proportions similar to those of the violin but has a body length of 37 to 43 cm (14.5 to 17 inches), about 5 cm (2 inches) longer than a violin. Its four strings are tuned c–g–d′–a′, beginning with the C below middle C.

Definitions of gamba. viol that is the bass member of the viol family with approximately the range of the cello. synonyms: bass viol, viola da gamba. type of: viol. any of a family of bowed stringed instruments that preceded the violin family.

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The German word for viola ("bratsche") is said to come from "viola da braccio" ("viola for the arm"), which is what instruments in the violin family were referred to in Italy during the 16th and 17th centuries. An early viola. Its sloping shoulders show its lineage from the viol.

Instruments in the viola da gamba family usually have six or seven strings which are tuned in fourths with a third in the middle. Instruments in the violin family usually have four strings which are tuned in fifths. Unlike violin family instruments, viols always have frets.

In French, violas have been called "altos" since the Baroque period, because they are the members of the violin family responsible for playing in the midrange.

The viol (also referred to as the viola da gamba, or gamba) is a European bowed and fretted string instrument played on the leg (da gamba), used at court and in the home primarily during the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

Gemba is a Japanese term that stands for and translates to “the real place” or “the actual place” where work is performed and value is produced.

The viola da gamba is a bowed stringed instrument that flourished from the 16th to 18th centuries in Europe. Its three commonest sizes of treble, tenor and bass span a register similar to their cousins, the violin family's violin, viola and cello.

All members of the viol family are played upright (unlike the violin or the viola, which is held under the chin). All viol instruments are held between the legs like a modern cello, hence the Italian name viola da gamba (it. "viol for the leg") was sometimes applied to the instruments of this family.

This relatively small English bass was made in mid-seventeenth-century London, at a time when viol making had been refined to such a degree that the instruments were desired in equal part by royalty and citizens alike.