On 4 Mar 2005 at 17:25, Godofredo Romero wrote: > Taken from Cecil Forsyth' book on orchestration "The name Violone, i.e > "big Viola, was given to the Double-Bass, and in accordance with the > accurate if somewhat limited principles of the Italian laguage, the > intermediate instrument was christened, Red-Indian-fashion, "little > big Viola, " Violoncello". It's a four stringed instrument.
Eh? A violone is a member of the *viol* family, not part of the violin family, and has a variable number of strings. Certainly the instrument NYU is acquiring will have gut strings, a flat back, C holes and frets, which means it has nothing to do with the modern double bass nor with the cello. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
