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Viols were used in the 15th through 17th centuries. They are of the same family as the violin but different in that they have five or six strings. Modern violins (and violas, cellos, and basses) have four strings. The earliest made surviving four-string violin is one of a set of 24 made for King Charles IX of France in the 1560's.

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