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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See double bass.
- n. See viola da gamba.
Wiktionary
- n. A fretted, bowed, stringed musical instrument from the viola da gamba family. It occupies the bass range and is the lowest instrument in the family. Similar to (but smaller than) a cello.
GNU Webster's 1913
- (Mus.) A stringed instrument of the viol family, used for playing bass. See 3d bass, n., and violoncello.
WordNet 3.0
- n. viol that is the bass member of the viol family with approximately the range of the cello
- n. largest and lowest member of the violin family
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Organ Stops
A list of pipe- and pedal-organ stops. These have variously and perhaps at times capriciously been named and labelled by organ builders in Latin, English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, a...
diapason, double open diapason, sub-bourdon, double dulciana, bourdon, contra gamba, pyramidon, open diapason, stopped diapason, dulcis, dulciana, viol-di-gamba and 244 more...
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