Viola vs. Viol — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Viola and Viol
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Viola
The viola ( vee-OH-lə, also UK: vy-OH-lə, Italian: [ˈvjɔːla, viˈɔːla]) is a string instrument that is bowed, plucked, or played with varying techniques. It is slightly larger than a violin and has a lower and deeper sound.
Viol
The viol (), viola da gamba (Italian: [ˈvjɔːla da (ɡ)ˈɡamba]), or informally gamba, is any one of a family of bowed, fretted and stringed instruments with hollow wooden bodies and pegboxes where the tension on the strings can be increased or decreased to adjust the pitch of each of the strings. Frets on the viol are usually made of gut, tied on the fingerboard around the instrument's neck, to enable the performer to stop the strings more cleanly.
Viola
A stringed instrument of the violin family, slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower, and having a deeper, more sonorous tone.
Viol
Any of a family of stringed instruments, chiefly of the 1500s and 1600s, having a fretted fingerboard, usually six strings, and a flat back and played with a curved bow.
Viola
An organ stop usually of eight-foot or four-foot pitch yielding stringlike tones.
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Viol
See viola da gamba.
Viola
Any of various plants of the genus Viola, which includes the violets and pansies, especially certain ornamental varieties that are usually more compact than pansies and have smaller flowers without a blotch on the petals.
Viol
(musical instrument) A stringed instrument related to the violin family, but held in the lap between the legs like a cello, usually with C-holes, a flat back, a fretted neck and six strings, played with an underhanded bow hold
Stringed instrument
Viola
(botany) Any of several flowering plants, of the genus Viola, including the violets and pansies.
Viol
(nautical) A large rope used to manipulate the anchor
Viola
A stringed instrument of the violin family, somewhat larger than a violin, played under the chin, and having a deeper tone.
Viol
To play the viol.
Viola
A person who plays the viola.
Viol
A stringed musical instrument formerly in use, of the same form as the violin, but larger, and having six strings, to be struck with a bow, and the neck furnished with frets for stopping the strings.
Me softer airs befit, and softer stringsOf lute, or viol still, more apt for mournful things.
Viola
(music) An organ stop having a similar tone.
Viol
A large rope sometimes used in weighing anchor.
Viola
(music) A 10-string steel-string acoustic guitar, used in Brazilian folk music.
Viol
Any of a family of bowed stringed instruments that preceded the violin family
Viola
(music) A berimbau viola, the smallest member of the berimbau used in capoeira music.
Viola
A genus of polypetalous herbaceous plants, including all kinds of violets.
Viola
An instrument in form and use resembling the violin, but larger, and a fifth lower in compass.
Viola
Any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola
Viola
Large genus of flowering herbs of temperate regions
Viola
A bowed stringed instrument slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower
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