What is the difference between a violin and a viol?

Answer 1

A viol is a member of a family of early stringed instruments made in the 16th and 17th centuries. They have flat backs and fretted fingerboards like a modern acoustic guitar. They usually have six strings and are played with a bow which is curved in a convex shape.

The modern family of stringed instruments - violin, viola, violoncello ('cello) and double bass - were invented later. All members of the modern family have curved backs. All have four strings except the double bass which can sometimes have five. They have no frets on their fingerboards, which allows the player to sound many more notes and also to play harmonics. They are played with a bow which has a concave shape which enables the bow hair to be stretched more tightly, allowing players to use a wide variety of different bowing techniques.

A: The violin has a wider dynamic range.

Answer 2

Violas are bowed string instruments, similar to the violin. Unlike the violin, their four strings are tuned a fifth lower, C G D A, with A being 440 hertz. The viola is also larger than the violin, most commonly from 15.5 to 16.5 inches. They are commonly played in a Classical Music setting (symphony, quartet, etc.) but can be used in more contemporary music, as in the Flobots. They usually carry harmony parts in orchestral work.

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Violas can be argued whether they play more in baroque or classical but I believe baroque music.

Answer 3

Its the french word for "rape"

The viol is any one of a family of bowed, fretted and stringed Musical Instruments developed in the mid-late 15th century and used primarily in the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

Answer 4

A viol is a fretted bowed instrument with a rather deep body. It typically has six strings, thought the numbers of strings on instruments I have seen range from three to seven. Its strings are tuned rather like those of a guitar, in fourths, but the position of the minor fourth step is different, and, actually, there is no standard. The bass instrument is a bit larger than a cello, and the double bass, tuned in fifths, without frets, and with four strings, is still often seen in orchestras and jazz bands.

Answer 5

It's a type of stringed instrument, essentially the predecessor to the cello.

Answer 6

A viol is another name for the viola da gamba, a family of stringed musical instrument which preceded the violin and the viola.