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Meanings of bass viol in English

Portuguese
contrabaixo
Catalan
violó
Wikidata

Largest and lowest member of the violin family.

        contrabaixo
        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.

              viola da gamba
              Usage of bass viol in English
              1
              At last the big bass viol won the victory and was there.
              A Little Girl in Old Boston
              2
              The instruments used are a piano, organ, violin, cornet and bass viol.
              The Twin Hells / A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Kansas and...
              3
              He played the organ and the bass viol, the organ most.
              Milton
              4
              My father's deep Welsh accent cut through the air like a bass viol.
              The heretic's daughter: a novel
              5
              A single passenger alighted: a man with a bass viol.
              A Fool and His Money
              6
              We had no bass viol; could we not make one?
              Humphrey Bold: A Story of the Times of Benbow
              7
              The shoemaker sits with his big bass viol, Philepom, Philepom!
              Comedies by Holberg : Jeppe of the Hill, The Political Tinker, E...
              8
              His parents taught him piano, violin and bass viol.
              100 New Yorkers of the 1970s
              9
              Bowing low, he spoke in a carefully modulated voice, deep and resonant as a bass viol:
              At the Mercy of Tiberius
              10
              There were two fiddles and a bass viol.
              Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1
              11
              From the gallery came the deeper growl of the bass viol and the preliminary breath of a flute.
              Lewis Rand
              12
              Thurston obeyed while the high-piled thunder-heads rumbled deep accompaniment, like the resonant lower tones of a bass viol.
              The Lure of the Dim Trails
              13
              They discussed their instruments-Jakeplayed a bass viol for High Plainsong-andthe special repertoire they'd prepared for the trip.
              Body work
              14
              The bass viol was also called the 'viola da gamba', because it was held between the legs.]
              Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 02: January 1659-1660
              15
              Yet observe the bass viol!
              There's Pippins and Cheese to Come
              16
              A performer on the bass viol, and a herd of butchers armed with marrow-bones and cleavers, form an English concert.
              The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings / With D...
              Translations for bass viol