Url
	https://omeka-s.grinnell.edu/s/MusicalInstruments/item/1808
Resource class
	wmi:MusicalInstrument
Title
	Baroque viola
Subject
	321.322
Publisher
	Dominik Zuchowicz (violins) 
H. F. Grabenstein (bows) 

Contributor
	Roger Vetter
Type
	European
Format
	27 in length (first instrument)
9.6 in. greatest width
1.3 in. height of ribs
28.7 in length (second instrument)
10.2 in. greatest width
1.4 in. height of ribs

Identifier
	2695 
	2696
Source
	Southern Europe
Language
	EN
Coverage
	Italy
Alternative Title
	viola
	alto
	Bratsche
Extent
	after Antonio Stradavari (first instrument)
	after da Salò (second instrument)
Medium
	wood
	string - gut
	string - wire-wound gut
	horsehair
Requires
	Boyden, David D., and Ann M. Woodward. 1984. “Viola,” NGDMI v.3: 753-759.
Campbell, Murray, Clive Greated, and Arnold Meyers. 2004. Musical Instruments: History, Technology, and Performance of Instruments of Western Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Douglass, David. 2007. "The Violin," In A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music. 2nd edition, ed. Jeffery T. Kite-Powell. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 156-169.
National Music Museum. Viola by Andrea Amati, Cremona, ca. 1560, accessed June 28, 2014: http://orgs.usd.edu/nmm/Violas/Amati3370/3370AmatiViola.html

Is Part Of
	Classical Era String Quartet
	Grinnell College Music Instrument Collection
Spatial Coverage
	Europe
Provenance
	Grinnell College Music Department
String carrier design for chordophone
	lute - joined
Resonator design for chordophone
	box with wood soundboard
String courses for chordophone
	single
Vibrational length for chordophone
	pressure bridge to ridge-nut
String tension control for chordophone
	friction peg
Method of sounding for chordophone
	bowing (direct) and plucking (direct)
Pitches per string course for chordophone
	multiple (by pressure stopping against fretless fingerboard)
Category of Instrument
	chordophone

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