LAist: Hear what Leonardo da Vinci's Viola Organista sounds like 500 years later (video)
Hear what Leonardo da Vinci's Viola Organista sounds like 500 years later (video)
Video of the “viola organista,” an instrument designed by Leonardo Da Vinci five centuries back, but only now just built for the first time, via Robert Sorokanich ...
Artnet: Art Bites: Leonardo da Vinci’s Harpsichord-Viola Was As Complicated As It Sounds
Art Bites: Leonardo da Vinci’s Harpsichord-Viola Was As Complicated As It Sounds
Leonardo da Vinci didn’t seem to take a day off. If he wasn’t painting a masterpiece, he was making major discoveries in anatomy. If he wasn’t making major discoveries in anatomy, he was designing ...
Apparently, Leonardo da Vinci loved to rock. An unusual musical instrument that combines keyboard and cellos has seen the light of day some 500 years after the Renaissance superman conceived it.
The viola (/ viˈoʊlə / vee-OH-lə, [1] (ⓘ) Italian: [ˈvjɔːla, viˈɔːla]) is a string instrument of the violin family, and is usually bowed when played. The viola is slightly larger than the violin and has a lower sound.
The viola is a stringed musical instrument, the tenor of the violin family. It is built in proportions similar to those of the violin but is slightly larger and is tuned a fifth lower.
Review the basics of how to play the viola, including how to hold the viola, tune your viola, viola fingering, viola care, viola bowing, and how to read viola music.
In this film, Nicholas Bootiman introduces his instrument - the viola. To learn more about the viola visit http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/explore/instruments/...