Fiddle, a musical instrument mounted with four strings, or guts, and struck, or played, with a bow.

Violoncello, of the Italians is properly our fifth violin; which is a little bass-violin, half the size of the common bass-violin, and its strings just half as thick and half as long, which renders the sound just an octave higher than the same.

Violone in musick, a double bass, almost twice as big as the common bass-violin, and the strings bigger and longer in proportion, and consequently its sound an octave lower than that of our bass-violin, which has a noble effect in great concerts.