vihuelan.

1832 Amer. Railroad Jrnl. 1 15/1 The music..consisted of several vihuèlas (a small kind of guitar).

1870 C. Engel Descr. Catal. Musical Instruments S. Kensington Mus. 46 The guitar is evidently an importation from the East... In Spain it had formerly also the name of vihuela..and in England, at the time of Henry VIII. we find it occasionally called ‘the Spanish viol’.

1910 Encycl. Brit. VII. 514/1 Spanish..vihuela de arco. Guitarra Latina or vihuela de mano.

1961 T. Dart in A. C. Baines Musical Instruments through Ages 184 One hybrid..made a great contribution to the development of European music. Its origins lie in Spain, home of the flat-backed vihuela de mano, the five- or later six-stringed guitar. This instrument was held and played much like the plectrum guitar of the present day; the cross-fertilization consisted in applying to it a playing technique..associated with..the fiddles... The result was the vihuela de arco (‘bowed’ vihuela), which was to become known..as the viol.

1968 New Oxf. Hist. Music IV. xi. 560 Ortiz deals with the viol (vihuela), for which he describes three kinds of playing.

1975 Gramophone Dec. 1002/1 An attractive collection of Spanish Renaissance vihuela music..excellently played (on the lute) by Konrad Ragnossnig, would prove enjoyable.

1925 J. B. Trend (title) Luis Milan and the vihuelistas.

1978 Early Music 6 623/1 It is the largest book of the vihuelistas and is..the most complete and representative collection drawn from the rich and varied musical repertoire of mid-16th-century Spain.