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On the wall: violas da gamba (baroque cousin of the cello), violas d’amore (baroque cousin of the violin), an oil painting of Christine playing the cello as a child, a rare oud constructed when Istanbul was still Constantinople.
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Nancy Walecki,
The Atlantic,
7 Aug. 2025
Galitzine had to learn everything from how to convincingly speak French to how to play the viola de gamba, a stringed Renaissance instrument.
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Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
5 Apr. 2024
From a distance, a gamba looks a bit like a cello, but with sloping, rather than rounded, shoulders and a wider fingerboard under six or seven strings (versus the cello’s four).
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Scott Cantrell,
Dallas News,
15 Sep. 2021
His orchestra of 25 players included a dozen strings, pairs of recorders and cornets, harp, dulcian (bassoon) and gamba, with two harpsichords and four chitarrone again anchoring the continuo group.
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John Von Rhein,
chicagotribune.com,
16 Oct. 2017
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Nancy Walecki,
The Atlantic,
7 Aug. 2025
Galitzine had to learn everything from how to convincingly speak French to how to play the viola de gamba, a stringed Renaissance instrument.
—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
5 Apr. 2024
From a distance, a gamba looks a bit like a cello, but with sloping, rather than rounded, shoulders and a wider fingerboard under six or seven strings (versus the cello’s four).
—
Scott Cantrell,
Dallas News,
15 Sep. 2021
His orchestra of 25 players included a dozen strings, pairs of recorders and cornets, harp, dulcian (bassoon) and gamba, with two harpsichords and four chitarrone again anchoring the continuo group.
—
John Von Rhein,
chicagotribune.com,
16 Oct. 2017
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“Gamba.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gamba. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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