Baritone violin

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A Baritone violin is a member of the violin family and has two specific meanings:

• a violin tuned an octave below conventional violin tuning (G-D-A-E). This is commonly accomplished by stringing a standard violin with heavy gauge strings, sometimes specially manufactured for this purpose, although oversize instruments with the ottava bassa tuning also exist. [1]
• the third largest member of the violin octet family of instruments, with the same tuning as a cello (C-G-D-A) but larger in size. [2]

Note that the first meaning of baritone violin has the same range and tuning as the tenor violin in the violin octet family.

[edit] References

• Anger, Darol. Another Voice: The Baritone Violin. Retrieved on May 18, 2006.
• The New Violin Family Association. Retrieved on May 18, 2006.