That is the Viola Organista, a 15th century instrument designed by that ultimate Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci. What you can't see is that this music is issuing from what appears to be a piano.

Church service music from the 1830s, performed on a bass viol, will be recreated nearly 200 years later inside the Hatfield Congregational Church on Thursday evening. Playing on an American bass viol ...

Sarah Mead discovered her sound at a young age through a unique instrument — the viola da gamba. Familiarly known as the ‘viol’ with a similar appearance to a cello, this instrument has six strings, ...

The viola is the middle voice of the string family. It is slightly larger than a violin and has a lower and deeper sound than a violin. Since the 18th century it has been the middle or alto voice of ...

NEW HAVEN -- Sunday afternoons in a blinds-drawn room on the second floor of the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments, audiences are swept away to a time when the music of the day was played in ...

The instrument is believed to be one of the finest tenor violas in existence and the only surviving example of its kind.