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Viol vs Gamba - What's the difference?

viol | gamba |

As verbs the difference between viol and gamba

is that viol is to play the viol while gamba is to take by surprise, surprise, grab, catch.

As a noun viol

is a viola da gamba, a family of musical instruments that preceded the violin and viola and similar string instruments.

viol

English

(wikipedia viol)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A viola da gamba, a family of musical instruments that preceded the violin and viola and similar string instruments

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To play the viol.
  • * (Sir Walter Scott)
    • “Keep your gold for those who lack it, mistress,” said Henry, “and do not offer to honest hands the money that is won by violing , and tabouring, and toetripping, and perhaps worse pastimes.
  • * (Thomas Hardy)
    • Through snowy woods and shady / We went to play a tune / To the lonely manor-lady / By the light of the Christmas moon. / We violed till, upward glancing / To where a mirror leaned, / It showed her airily dancing
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    gamba

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Shortened name for the string instrument viola da gamba.
  • A rank of organ pipes, so-called for a supposed resemblance of the sound to that of a viola da gamba.
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