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In the violin family, the next in pitch above the cello is the viola. The cello is the bass of the violin family. The violin itself is the soprano, and the alto is the viola. There have been tenors made of this family from time to time, but they are not in any way standard instruments and are usually called by the name tenor violin.
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The cello would be categorized into the strings family, which includes the cello, violin, viola, double bass, viol, fiddle, harp and bass guitar.
A viola is a string instrument of the violin family. It is larger than a violin but smaller than a cello, and like the violin and cello it is played with a bow.
The bass has the lowest pitch of these instruments, followed by the 'cello and then the viola.
The viola is both larger than the violin and smaller than the cello.
stringsstring familyIt's in the string instrument family, along with the cello, double bass, and violin.
The viola comes from the "violin family" although the viola came first. Some people state this as the "viola family." To be more general, you could categorize this as the string family if you include guitars pianos etc.
The 'cello is the larger of these instruments.
A cello can play in the range of a violin (much of it), if that's what you mean, but a violin's highest note is much higher than a cello's highest note.
Typically a string quartet is two violins, one viola, one cello.