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VIELLE

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 50 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VIELLE , viole, viole, a See also:

French See also:term, derived from See also:Lat. fidicula, embracing two distinct types of See also:instruments: (I) from the 12th to the beginning of the 15th See also:century bowed instruments having a See also:box-soundchest with ribs, (2) from the See also:middle or end of the 15th century, the hurdy-gurdy (q.v.). The See also:medieval word vielle or viole has often been incorrectly applied to the latter See also:instrument by See also:modern writers when dealing with the 13th and 14th centuries. The instruments included under the name of vielle, whatever See also:form their outline assumed, always had the box-soundchest consisting of back and belly joined by ribs, which experience has pronounced the most perfect construction for bowed instruments. The most See also:common shape given to the earliest vielles in See also:France was an See also:oval, which with its modifications remained in favour until the See also:guitar-See also:fiddle, the See also:Italian See also:lyra, asserted itself as the finest type, from which also the See also:violin was directly evolved. (K.

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