>> It's a viol. Descended from the violone. > > The double bass section of a modern orchestra is something of a racial > melting pot. Some instruments have violin bodies while others have the > slope-shouldered viol form. Post-baroque basses have historically > taken a number of forms. Two centuries ago there were versions with > three strings and five strings. The 3string version survived in Ukraine until recently. There is was called basolya. RT
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