Music isn’t completely human. - Sainte-Colombe The fifteenth-century viola da gamba (Italian, “viol for the leg”) or gamba, is played straddled like a cello. But the resemblance ends there. It is smaller and more delicate. It has five to seven strings, rather than the four of a cello, is tuned in fourths, rather than perfect
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