Division Viol, ca. 1720, Germany, German, Wood, ivory, tortoise shell, Body length: cm., Chordophone-Lute-bowed-fretted

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Division Viol, ca. 1720, Germany, German, Wood, ivory, tortoise shell, Body length: cm., Chordophone-Lute-bowed-fretted, School of Tielke, Slightly smaller than the bass viola da gamba, the division viol is an instrument ideal for playing improvised variations (or 'divisions') upon a repeated bassline, or ground. Division viols grew in popularity in England in the seventeenth century alongside publications of methodical treatises, such as Christopher Simpson's The Division Viol of 1665 and The Division-Violist of 1669, as well as John Playford's A Brief Introduction of 1667

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