Vielle

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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What Wikipedia says

The vielle ( vee-EL; French: [vjɛl] ) is a European bowed string instrument used in the medieval period. It is similar to the modern violin but with a somewhat longer and deeper body, 3-to-5 gut strings, and a leaf-shaped pegbox with frontal tuning pegs, sometimes with a figure eight–shaped body.

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