Joy, sorrow and the viola da gamba - Quadrant Online
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
Source: quadrant.org.au
