bass viol

"You seem to care a great deal about bass viols!"

The next person in line was a young man with a large string bass viol.

The bass viol still lay in the shadows under the table.

The melody of the bass viols in his voice became grave.

A boy followed them carrying a bass viol that was bigger than he.

A bass viol was very often used to support the bass line in performance.

"It's the only thing that makes me forgive that bass viol for getting in my way."

His three sonatas were for violin, bass viol and continuo.

Lute and bass viol were often played together.

He spread a table rug on the table in the foreground, and set the bass viol under it.

His entire body seemed to be vibrating, humming inside like a plucked string of a bass viol.

And the bass viol could also serve as a continuo bass.

The body shape of the instrument, is however more similar to a medieval fiddle than either the guitar or the bass viol.

During the seventies, Delia studied composition, arranging, piano and bass viol.

Mabel Dolmetsch, his wife, was a noted player of the bass viol.

The baryton can be viewed as a sort of augmented bass viol.

De Sainte-Colombe was a master at playing the bass viol.

The electric bass guitar is similar in tuning to the traditional double bass viol.

She was primarily a keyboard player; she later became a player of the bass viol.

In 1722, he led the cello in the opera orchestra, displacing the bass viol.

The baryton differs from the bass viol in having an additional set of wire strings.

The professor was also a musician who played the bass viol (also known colloquially as the "bull fiddle").

Up until that time, the congregation was traditionally accompanied by a trio of musicians playing bass viol, violoncello and flute.

It was as though their insides were nothing but an immense string on a bass viol and something had plucked that string.

William Saunders - musician (bass viol and sackbut); "necessary attendant."