Viola da Gamba, 1640–65, London, United Kingdom, British, Maple, spruce, Height: 45 1/4 in. (115 cm), Chordophone-Lute-bowed

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Viola da Gamba, 1640–65, London, United Kingdom, British, Maple, spruce, Height: 45 1/4 in. (115 cm), Chordophone-Lute-bowed-fretted, In England after 1600, small bass viols such as these began to displace larger consort instruments. Viols of this size remained dominant until the viola da gamba began to go out of fashion in the late eighteenth century (at which point many small bass viols were converted into cellos

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