Cello is lower in pitch by one octave. It is also much bigger.
A cello is lower in pitch than a viola, the strings are thicker and produce a deeper tone.
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.
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no The cello can, however, achieve many notes in the viola range. The viola can only go down so far in pitch on the lowest open string.
The bass has the lowest pitch of these instruments, followed by the 'cello and then the viola.
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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.
Pitch
cello
no The cello can, however, achieve many notes in the viola range. The viola can only go down so far in pitch on the lowest open string.
The bass has the lowest pitch of these instruments, followed by the 'cello and then the viola.
the difference between cello and viola music is that cello sounds lower then viola
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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.
A 'cello produces a lower pitch than a violin.
A 'cello produces a lower pitch than a violin.
The cello has a C string and is lower in pitch than the violin.
Typically a string quartet is two violins, one viola, one cello.