Re: OT: New track - DL4, violin and bridge.

["Cino" <CinoPolnesi@att.net>]

Gary wrote:
> > I wonder if anyone has ever invented a guit-cello with
> > guitar strings, compound radius and bridge like a cello,
> > but with frets for us into-impaired...?

David responded:
> I think it's called the Viola da Gamba.

I believe there was also a rare hybrid instrument called the arpeggione
(developed much later than the viola da gamba), which combined a
guitar-shaped body, long fretted neck, and an arched bridge for bowing.