Quinton (musical instrument)
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Quinton (musical instrument)
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The quinton is a bowed musical instrument, in use mostly in France in the 18th century. It takes its name from the fact that, in ensembles, it played the quinta vox or quintus. Another derivation of the name may be from the number of strings and for consonance with violon. By the same name it is sometimes denoted the pardessus de viole, an originally six-stringed instrument of the family of the viols, since the pardessus lost one string and adopted the same tuning of the quinton. However, while
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2024-02-07T10:24:25Z
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