The Vihuela is a very ancient instrument and the ancestor of many others. The Spanish Vihuela of the renaissance period had a violin shaped body with a flat back and top and the gut frets still used today. It is believed the Viol family of bowed instruments and citterns and hence guitars were descended from it. The Spanish name Vihuela is carried on in the word Viola and nence violin etc.
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