Hello Charles,
As Mr.Guy Ross informed, a person who you have to ask is Mr.Pierre Emmanuel.
But I do not know he is on his vacance or not right now.
I'm afraid the picture on my blog has not so high resolution.
Followings are additional information.
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From an organological point of view, I have a slightly different
opinion.
The word viola means string instrument in the renaissance, and
gradually changes its meaning to bowed string instrument
towards the end of the renaissance. It maintains this latter meaning
through the first
Ditch the Poulton :)
There are lots of youtube videos now where you can see many different
styles of playing.
dt
At 01:18 PM 8/18/2010, you wrote:
Hello all-
I have a few questions for the experienced players out there who might
be so kind as to answer. I've been working through
Always interested in words and their origins, I read David's post with
pleasure, as usual. I was puzzled, though, about the word viola, which in
classical Latin refers to a flower (the violet). Viola in English and
other languages seems to come from an identical word in Provençal, which my
