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• n  a large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing

• It is a member of the viol family, lying midway between the violin and the violoncello.
• After the guests had taken their chairs, Casals bent over his 250-year-old Goffriller violoncello and, with a characteristic grimace, began to draw out the golden notes of .
• And then there's the all-female violoncello quartet known collectively as Cello.

• cello

News & Articles

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• No plans? No problem
  Cellist Julian Schwarz will perform Saint-Saens' 'Concerto for Violoncello No. 1' at Saturday's Binghamton Philharmonic concert. Provided Starring in the Endicott Performing Arts Center's production of 'In Stitches' are, from left, Fran Massara, Bill Campoli, Jim Lamb, Vonda Campoli and Camille Muscatello.
  Oct. 5, 2013 - The Journal News

Quotes

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• Lera Auerbach in San Francisco Chronicle
  Commenting on her "24 Preludes," Auerbach said: "When I think of these violoncello and piano preludes, I compare them to the Lake Inyshka in the Ural Mountains, where my family would vacation during the summers of my childhood. The lake looked...