Johannes
David W. Fenton wrote:
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.
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