Largest and lowest member of the violin family.
Viol that is the bass member of the viol family with approximately the range of the cello.
1At last the big bass viol won the victory and was there.
2The instruments used are a piano, organ, violin, cornet and bass viol.
3He played the organ and the bass viol, the organ most.
4My father's deep Welsh accent cut through the air like a bass viol.
5A single passenger alighted: a man with a bass viol.
6We had no bass viol; could we not make one?
7The shoemaker sits with his big bass viol, Philepom, Philepom!
8His parents taught him piano, violin and bass viol.
9Bowing low, he spoke in a carefully modulated voice, deep and resonant as a bass viol:
10There were two fiddles and a bass viol.
11From the gallery came the deeper growl of the bass viol and the preliminary breath of a flute.
12Thurston obeyed while the high-piled thunder-heads rumbled deep accompaniment, like the resonant lower tones of a bass viol.
13They discussed their instruments-Jakeplayed a bass viol for High Plainsong-andthe special repertoire they'd prepared for the trip.
14The bass viol was also called the 'viola da gamba', because it was held between the legs.]
15Yet observe the bass viol!
16A performer on the bass viol, and a herd of butchers armed with marrow-bones and cleavers, form an English concert.
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