page_title: Vihuela
hierarchical_section_title: Vihuela
caption_attribution_description: English: Vihuela built by Kahlil Gibran Further reading Kahlil Gibran - Sculptor About the Artist.&#32;KahlilGibran.org. Selected Instruments. Vihuela [built by Kahlil Gibran]&#32;(photograph ca.1954). Wiki Photo 5 - Vihuela &amp; Museum of Fine Arts. Boston Program 1954.&#32;Wiki Photo, KahlilGibran.org.the external image pages prepared for a Wikipedia article "Kahlil Gibran (sculptor)". Court Music Of The Spanish Renaissance &#x5b;at the Museum of Fine Arts&#x5d;&#32;(1954 concert program).&#32;"The vihuela (Spanish lute) used in this concert was made by Kahil Gibran."
context_page_description: The vihuela is a 15th-century fretted plucked Spanish string instrument, shaped like a guitar but tuned like a lute. It was used in 15th- and 16th-century Spain as the equivalent of the lute in Italy and has a large resultant repertory. There were usually five or six doubled strings.
  A bowed version, the vihuela de arco, was conceived in Spain and made in Italy from 1480. One consequence was the phrase vihuela de mano being thereafter applied to the original plucked instrument. The term vihuela became "viola" in Italian, and the bowed vihuela de arco was to serve as prototype in the hands of the Italian craftsmen for the "da gamba" family of fretted bowed string instruments, as developed starting in 1480. Their vihuela-inherited frets made these easier to play in tune than the rebec family, and so they became popular for chamber music.
context_section_description: The vihuela ([biˈwela]) is a 15th-century fretted plucked Spanish string instrument, shaped like a guitar (figure-of-eight form offering strength and portability) but tuned like a lute. It was used in 15th- and 16th-century Spain as the equivalent of the lute in Italy and has a large resultant repertory. There were usually five or six doubled strings. 
  A bowed version, the vihuela de arco (arco meaning bow), was conceived in Spain and made in Italy from 1480. One consequence was the phrase vihuela de mano being thereafter applied to the original plucked instrument. The term vihuela became "viola" in Italian ("viole" in Fr.; "viol" in Eng.), and the bowed vihuela de arco was to serve as prototype in the hands of the Italian craftsmen for the "da gamba" family of fretted bowed string instruments, as developed starting in 1480. Their vihuela-inherited frets made these easier to play in tune than the rebec family (precursors of the "da braccio" family), and so they became popular for chamber music.
caption: Vihuela reproduced by Khalil Gibran in the mid–20th century
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