guitar-fiddle

Updated: May 7, 2025

Numerous obstacles stand in the way of defining its story, but it is known that from the ninth century to the thirteenth bow instruments gained in importance. They divided into two classes the viol proper, with flat back and breast and indented sides, to which belonged the veille, videl, or as it has been called, guitar-fiddle, and the pear-shaped type, such as the gigue and rebec.

Aubertine Woodward Moore - For Every Music Lover: A Series of Practical Essays on Music