Portuguese
contrabaixo Catalan
violó 
Largest and lowest member of the violin family.
Portuguese
viola da gamba Catalan
viola de gamba Viol that is the bass member of the viol family with approximately the range of the cello.
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At last the big bass viol won the victory and was there.
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The instruments used are a piano, organ, violin, cornet and bass viol.
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He played the organ and the bass viol, the organ most.
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My father's deep Welsh accent cut through the air like a bass viol.
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A single passenger alighted: a man with a bass viol.
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We had no bass viol; could we not make one?
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The shoemaker sits with his big bass viol, Philepom, Philepom!
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His parents taught him piano, violin and bass viol.
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Bowing low, he spoke in a carefully modulated voice, deep and resonant as a bass viol:
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There were two fiddles and a bass viol.
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From the gallery came the deeper growl of the bass viol and the preliminary breath of a flute.
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Thurston obeyed while the high-piled thunder-heads rumbled deep accompaniment, like the resonant lower tones of a bass viol.
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They discussed their instruments-Jakeplayed a bass viol for High Plainsong-andthe special repertoire they'd prepared for the trip.
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The bass viol was also called the 'viola da gamba', because it was held between the legs.]
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Yet observe the bass viol!
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A performer on the bass viol, and a herd of butchers armed with marrow-bones and cleavers, form an English concert.