| Renaissance instrument |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
31 Oct 2025 |
| Baroque stringed instrument |
New York Times |
22 Aug 2025 |
| Six-stringed instrument similar to a cello |
New York Times |
06 Aug 2025 |
| Any of a family of stringed instruments that preceded the violin (4) |
Mirror Quiz |
19 Jul 2025 |
| Old stringed instrument |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
06 May 2025 |
| Family of stringed instruments that preceded the violin family |
Mirror Quiz |
03 May 2025 |
| Four-stringed instrument |
Family Time |
06 Apr 2025 |
| Instrument that becomes another if an A is added to the end |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
27 Mar 2025 |
| Late-medieval stringed musical instrument (4) |
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| Floral symbols of Sapphic love |
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| Stringed instrument of the Renaissance |
Wall Street Journal |
11 Feb 2025 |
| Instrument used in some historically accurate Baroque performances |
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| Old stringed instrument (4) |
The Guardian Quick |
22 Jan 2025 |
| Cello forerunner |
Wall Street Journal |
11 Jan 2025 |
| Type of bowed stringed instrument (4) |
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| Said goodbye to the Italian food (4) |
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| Any of a family of stringed instruments that preceded the violin family |
Mirror Quiz |
05 Nov 2024 |
| Inviolable instrument included (4) |
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| Inviolable legal instrument included (4) |
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| Bass __ (stringed instrument) |
Newsday |
20 Oct 2024 |
| Old stringed instrument |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
07 Oct 2024 |
| Old stringed instrument |
Eugene Sheffer |
16 Sep 2024 |
| What instrument of the 15th-18th century was eclipsed by the violin? (4) |
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| Awful sounding old instrument (4) |
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| Instrument with an unpleasant sound? (4) |
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| Baroque instrument |
LA Times Daily |
10 Jul 2024 |
| Any of a family of stringed instruments that preceded the violin family |
Mirror Quiz |
03 Jul 2024 |
| It's a very old fiddle! |
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| Violin's Renaissance predecessor |
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| Early stringed instrument (4) |
The Guardian Speedy |
09 Jun 2024 |
| Old instrument would take in the fiddle today (4) |
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| Six-stringed instrument |
Wall Street Journal |
18 May 2024 |
| Gamba |
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| Inviolable hiding-place for instrument (4) |
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| Stringed instrument that preceded the violin family (4) |
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| Instrument to lose in another (4) |
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| Bach wrote for it |
Newsday |
06 Jan 2024 |
| Any of a family of stringed instruments that preceded the violin family |
Mirror Quiz |
16 Dec 2023 |
| Limited volume restricting one old instrument |
The Guardian Cryptic |
17 Nov 2023 |
| Old stringed instrument |
Eugene Sheffer |
17 Oct 2023 |
| Cello kin |
LA Times Daily |
02 Jul 2023 |
| Bass __ (stringed instrument) |
Newsday |
04 Jun 2023 |
| Baroque stringed instrument |
LA Times Daily |
25 Dec 2022 |
| Pre-violin instrument played with a bow |
The Guardian Quick |
08 Oct 2022 |
| Old stringed instrument |
Eugene Sheffer |
09 Sep 2022 |
| Instrument, one featured in short book |
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| Instrument, one featured in short book |
The Guardian Cryptic |
04 May 2022 |
| Cello's ancestor |
Eugene Sheffer |
24 Feb 2022 |
| Old stringed instrument |
The Times Concise |
04 Feb 2022 |
| Instrument that’s a homophone of 69-Down |
New York Times |
24 Oct 2021 |
| Bass relative |
Wall Street Journal |
28 Jul 2021 |
| Stringed nstrument |
Canadiana |
21 Jun 2021 |
| Cello's ancestor |
Premier Sunday |
25 Apr 2021 |
| One of a family of stringed instruments |
New York Times |
09 Mar 2021 |
| Bass ___ (stringed instrument) |
Family Time |
01 Feb 2021 |
| Baroque stringed instrument |
Newsday |
03 Dec 2020 |
| Baroque stringed instrument |
The Times Concise |
30 Oct 2020 |
| Bass ___ (four-stringed instrument) |
Family Time |
27 Sep 2020 |
| An old instrument played by 51,050 |
Irish Times Crosaire |
26 Sep 2020 |
| Certain type of bowed, stringed instrument |
Family Time |
28 Jun 2020 |
| Early bowed stringed instrument |
Irish Times Simplex |
02 Mar 2020 |
| Cello kin |
Wall Street Journal |
26 Feb 2020 |
| Stringed instrument of yore |
Premier Sunday |
01 Dec 2019 |
| Popular Renaissance instrument |
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| Popular Renaissance instrument |
New York Times |
24 Oct 2019 |
| Six-stringed instrument |
New York Times |
11 Jul 2019 |
| Cello's ancestor |
Eugene Sheffer |
06 Jul 2019 |
| Fiddle forerunner |
USA Today |
26 Jun 2019 |
| Relative of a cello |
New York Times |
22 Apr 2019 |
| Member of a Baroque consort |
The Washington Post |
29 Mar 2019 |
| Member of a Baroque consort |
LA Times Daily |
29 Mar 2019 |
| Instrument of heartless caustic criticism |
The Telegraph Toughie |
19 Mar 2019 |
| Old musical instrument, typically with frets and six strings |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
06 Jan 2019 |
| Relative of a cello |
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| Member of a Baroque consort |
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| Fiddle forerunner |
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| Six-stringed instrument |
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| Stringed instrument |
Canadiana |
15 Oct 2018 |
| Old stringed instrument |
The Telegraph General Knowledge |
02 Sep 2018 |
| Baroque instrument |
Family Time |
17 Jun 2018 |
| Look up, after six, the old instrument |
The Sun Two Speed |
22 Jan 2018 |
| Early stringed instrument |
The Sun Two Speed |
22 Jan 2018 |
| Renaissance fair instrument |
USA Today |
12 Jan 2018 |
| Fretted ancestor of the fiddle |
USA Today |
04 Jan 2018 |
| Fretted ancestor of the fiddle |
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| Renaissance fair instrument |
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| Instrument Bach wrote for |
Newsday |
02 Dec 2017 |
| Cello ancestor |
Universal |
14 Nov 2017 |
| The double bass is the closest modern relative of this old instrument |
The Telegraph General Knowledge |
24 Sep 2017 |
| Fiddle's fancy relative |
Universal |
28 Aug 2017 |
| Stringed instrument |
Universal |
06 Aug 2017 |
| Baroque stringed instrument |
Universal |
12 Jun 2017 |
| Sextet look round for something from the past to play |
The Times Cryptic |
19 May 2017 |
| Sextet look round for something from the past to play |
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| Nurse leaves in revulsion with Old Stringer |
Irish Times Crosaire |
24 Feb 2017 |
| Alto clef instrument |
New York Times |
27 Jan 2017 |
| 15 Instrument to primarily view moon at the start of lunar eclipse |
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| Baroque chamber instrument |
The Washington Post |
10 Jan 2017 |
| Awful-sounding instrument |
|
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| Cello ancestor |
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| Alto clef instrument |
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| Stringed instrument |
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| Fiddle's fancy relative |
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| Baroque stringed instrument |
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| One was bowed, showing only half of injury |
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| Cello's cousin |
Family Time |
27 Nov 2016 |
| Instrument that has appalling sound |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
21 Nov 2016 |
| Musical instrument made by six old characters after losing a string |
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| Baroque chamber instrument |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
07 Oct 2016 |
| Baroque instrument |
Newsday |
02 Oct 2016 |
| Cello's little relative |
Universal |
16 Sep 2016 |
| It takes a bow |
Wall Street Journal |
02 Sep 2016 |
| Baroque stringed instrument |
New York Times |
24 May 2016 |
| Instrument that has an appalling sound |
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| Old stringed instrument |
The Times Concise |
03 May 2016 |
| Ancestor of a cello |
New York Times |
31 Mar 2016 |
| String section member |
USA Today |
03 Feb 2016 |
| Bowed baroque instrument |
Wall Street Journal |
30 Jan 2016 |
| Baroque stringed instrument |
|
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| String section member |
|
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| Cello's little relative |
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| Baroque chamber instrument |
|
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| Instrument to measure oil composition |
|
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| Cello's cousin |
Thomas Joseph |
31 Oct 2015 |
| Six-stringed instrument |
Universal |
08 Aug 2015 |
| Girl left holding old musical instrument |
The Times Cryptic |
28 Jul 2015 |
| Consort member |
Wall Street Journal |
01 May 2015 |
| Cello forerunner |
Premier Sunday |
12 Apr 2015 |
| Stringed instrument |
LA Times Daily |
05 Mar 2015 |
| Bass __ (cello ancestor) |
Newsday |
01 Mar 2015 |
| Consort member |
|
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| Bass __ (cello ancestor) |
|
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| Cello's ancestor |
|
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| Stringed instrument |
|
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| Six-stringed instrument |
|
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| Cello forerunner |
|
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| 16th-century bowed stringed instrument |
|
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| Stringed instrument |
|
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| Instrument in Vermeer's "The Music Lesson" |
|
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| 16th-century stringed instrument |
|
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| Fretted fiddle |
|
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| Large stringed instrument |
|
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| One of the strings |
|
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| String instrument |
|
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| Bowed musical instrument |
|
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| Baroque chamber instrument |
|
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| Old orchestral stringed instrument |
|
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| Baroque instrument |
|
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| Fretted fiddle |
|
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| Six-stringed instrument, usually |
|
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| Bowed stringed instrument |
|
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| Fat fiddle forerunner |
|
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| Cello's cousin |
|
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| Six-stringed instrument |
|
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| Baroque stringed instrument |
|
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| Baroque-orchestra instrument |
|
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| It takes a bow |
|
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| Cello's kin |
|
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| Renaissance-fair instrument |
|
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| Renaissance Festival instrument |
|
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| Instrument played with a bow |
|
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| Six-stringed instrument, usually |
|
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| Stringed instrument |
|
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| Baroque chamber instrument |
|
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| Bass ___ (stringed instrument) |
|
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| Cello precursor |
|
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| "Bass" instrument |
|
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| Baroque stringed instrument |
|
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| Instrument popular in the 1600s |
|
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| Six-stringed fiddle |
|
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| Early stringed instrument |
|
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| Baroque stringed instrument |
|
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| Bass __ (stringed instrument) |
|
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| Baroque bowed instrument |
|
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| Six-stringed fiddle |
|
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| String section member |
|
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| Old fiddle |
|
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| Baroque stringed instrument |
|
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| Cello's cousin |
|
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| If you play it, take a bow |
|
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| Six-stringed instrument |
|
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| It took a bow |
|
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| Fretted fiddle |
|
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| Old stringed instrument |
|
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| Its players bow |
|
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| Bass __ |
|
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| Cello relative |
|
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| Bass relative |
|
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| Cello relative |
|
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| Bass __ |
|
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| Certain stringed instrument |
|
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| Old orchestral string |
|
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| Cello's ancestor |
|
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| Baroque instrument |
|
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| Baroque instrument |
|
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| Strings member |
|
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| Bowed musical instrument |
|
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| Its player takes a bow |
|
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| Old fiddle |
|
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| Fretted instrument |
|
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| Fiddle's family |
|
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| Common stringed instrument of the past |
|
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| Bass __ (old instrument) |
|
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| Instrument played with a bow |
|
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| Old stringed instrument |
|
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| Six-stringed instrument |
|
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| Early stringed instrument |
|
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| Six-stringed instrument |
|
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| Early stringed instrument |
|
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| Six-stringed instrument |
|
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| String instrument |
|
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| Bad-sounding instrument? |
|
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| Bowed instrument |
|
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| Cello's ancestor |
|
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| It has six strings |
|
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| Bowed instrument |
|
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| Fretted instrument |
|
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| Fretted fiddle |
|
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| Six-string |
|
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| Stringed instrument |
|
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| Cello precursor |
|
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| Cello's cousin |
|
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| String |
|
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| Bass ___ |
|
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| Bass instrument |
|
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| If you play it, take a bow |
|
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| Cello kin |
|
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| Fiddle forerunner |
|
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| Baroque-orchestra instrument |
|
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| Its players take a bow |
|
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| Cello kin |
|
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| Old stringed instrument |
|
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| 17th century stringed instrument |
|
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| One of the strings |
|
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| It has a low-arched bridge |
|
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| Orchestra piece |
|
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| Six-stringed instrument |
|
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| Balladeer's instrument |
|
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| It takes a bow at a recital |
|
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| Orchestral string |
|
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| Bass ____ |
|
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| Bass___ |
|
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| Large stringed instrument |
|
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| Early stringed instrument |
|
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| Musical instrument |
|
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| Bass _____ |
|
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| Stringed instrument |
|
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| Fat fiddle |
|
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| "The ___, the violet, and the vine": Poe |
|
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| Rebec's kin |
|
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| Instrument popular in Shakespeare's day |
|
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| Double bass |
|
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| Bowed instrument |
|
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| Organ stop |
|
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| One of the strings |
|
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| Treble or bass |
|
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| Gudok, e.g. |
|
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| Old instrument |
|
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| Music maker |
|
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| Stringed instrument. |
|
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| Bass ___. |
|
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| Instrument. |
|
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| Old fiddle |
|
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| Fretted instrument |
|
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| Ancestor of the contrabass. |
|
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| Contrabass, for instance. |
|
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| Old stringed instrument. |
|
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| Musical instrument. |
|
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| Fiddle's relative. |
|
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| Member of the string section. |
|
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| Six-stringed instrument. |
|
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| Early type of bow instrument. |
|
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| Orchestral instrument. |
|
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| Kind of fiddle. |
|
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| Musical instrument |
|
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