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Plucked Viol by Trouvere Music Works

Pictured here is a plucked viol made by Trouvere Music Works (They specialize in making affordable instruments designed for the rigors of historical reenacting.) It is based on an image from a fifteenth century French manuscript now held by the Morgan Library, M.358 (on page 32r), which shows it being played by a blue wyvern. There is a similar illustration on 32v. The instrument has characteristics of several other instruments. It has the figure eight shape of the Medieval viol. However, it has the bent-back peg box of the lute, and is plucked like the lute, as opposed to being bowed which was typical of the viol.


Plucked Viol by Trouvere Music Works
Plucked Viol by Trouvere Music Works
Plucked Viol by Trouvere Music Works

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