viola da gamba

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  1. noun A stringed instrument, the bass of the viol family, with approximately the range of the cello. Also called bass viol, gamba, viol.
  2. noun An organ stop of eight-foot pitch yielding tones similar to those of the viola da gamba.

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  1. Italian : viola, viol + da, of, for + gamba, leg.
 

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