Viola de Gamba

Descriptions, photos, history, and sounds of instruments used in performing early music. Includes the bagpipe, bladder pipe, cornamuse, crumhorn, dulcian, dulcimer, gamba, gemshorn, harp, harpsichord, hirtenschalmei, hurdy-gurdy, kortholt, lizard, lute, mute cornett, organetto, percussion, pipe and tabor, psaltery, rackett, rauschpfeife, rebec, recorder, sacbut, schalmei, serpent, shawm, shofar, transverse flute, viol, and zink.

A history of the viol, and a description of its tone.

Transcriptions of relevant passages from 17th century treatises, together with scans of the original pages.