violas d'amore

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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.
violas d'amore
Accepted term: 22-Apr-2024