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Violas d'amore

Scope note

Chordophones with a viol-like body but unfretted, held and bowed like the viola; it has seven playing strings which pass over the top of the bridge and seven sympathetic strings which run through the bridge and under the fingerboard into separate pegs in the pegbox.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

300042226

Broader Terms used

<violin family instruments>

Narrower Terms used

sultanas

Equivalent Terms used

viola d'amore

Created

13yrs ago

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