Its melody is less complex, and a solo viol would bring it out much better.    From LearnThat.org.  [yourdictionary.com]

Anyway, on that song he played something called a viol, which has a mandolin-type sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [LAist] Reference

The Hebrew word nebhel, so rendered, is translated "viol" in Isa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference

To the first class belong the harp, the psaltery (also rendered "viol", "dulcimer", etc.), the sackbut (Lat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference

And a viol came imported, by the stage from Abilene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads] Reference

Basque Region bas-relief bass bass drum bassoon bass viol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entry Index: appendectomy to Berkshires] Reference

Old Doctor Kingsley played the bass viol so it was soul stirrin 'too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference

The instruments used are a piano, organ, violin, cornet and bass viol.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries] Reference

The chimney seemed to be a big bass-viol that this north-easter played on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play] Reference

But as to all the rest, no better than the viol-block or the geer-capstan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves] Reference

Herbert was very fond of music; he sang, and played too, upon the lute and viol.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference

Significant then, that he worshipped "the viol, the violet, and the vine" of Poe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference

The viol, the violet, and the vine; or the imitative effectiveness of Swinburne's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of English Versification] Reference

She never brought us a shilling, till you came and made her sing to your bass-viol.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference

L. the bass-viol; Lord G. the German-flute; and most of the company joined in the chorus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference

My brown dairy, brown dairy, &c. They may talk of the viol, and its strings they may try all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference

Our next step was to draw the rope wholly into the dormitory and fasten its wet end to the bass viol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference

St. Cecilia are scattered various instruments of music, a viol, cymbals, the triangle, flute, and others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians] Reference

“So be it,” said the minstrel; “the rote or the viol easily changes its time and varies its note.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castle Dangerous] Reference

In my mind's eye I saw a big hollow vessel shaped like a bass viol floating on the water of the moat, and Joe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference

She procured a viol and learned to play on it; till one day they wished to marry her to a king, a rich Paynim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aucassin and Nicolette translated from the Old French] Reference

Musicians were sent for from Dun-fermline, as the castle lacked cittern and viol players, and music was selected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

We went up into our dormitory, taking with us our instruments as usual, among them the bass viol of our invention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference

The bass viol player's face was almost funereal as he gazed abstractedly up into the branches of the tree above him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles] Reference

Thus in the early years of the century John Warren performed the double duty of bass-viol player and parish clerk at the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King] Reference

“I ask not for myself — with my viol and my pencil, Rene the Troubadour will be as happy as ever was Rene the King.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anne of Geierstein] Reference

My niece sings, and the curate and I-- 'Arcades ambo' -- respond successively -- he on the bass-viol and I on my Stradivarius.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

A fiddle she could tolerate only in the shape of a bass-viol; and dancing, if practised at all, must be called "calisthenics.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference

The same youth bore a viol, on which, at a signal from his master, he occasionally struck a few musical notes, to which the old.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anne of Geierstein] Reference

Then there came a sudden twang, as of a violently plucked string on a bass viol, and the amber egg dropped from the faceted side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil Crystals of Arret] Reference

Why, thought John, do bass viol players always have that far-away, woebegone look on their faces as they saw at their instruments?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles] Reference

Later he learned the bass viol, violoncello and cornet, and made money by playing for parties and entertainments in his neighborhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russell H. Conwell] Reference

From this adventure that I have told you, has come the Lay that minstrels chant to harp and viol -- fair is that song and sweet the tune.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference

It's the ascetic who is director Alain Corneau's hero-a man who shuts out the world when his wife dies, retreating to a cabin to play his viol and compose his haunting music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transatlantic Travelers] Reference