A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Violet

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3932137A Dictionary of Music and Musicians — VioletGeorge GroveEdward John Payne

VIOLET. A name sometimes given to the Viola d'Amore. L. Mozart calls the Viola d'Amore with chromatic sympathetic apparatus the 'English Violet': a singular denomination, for, as in the case of the Corno Inglese, the instrument appears never to have been made, and seldom used, in this country.

[ E. J. P. ]