{"id":2322,"date":"2018-01-31T17:43:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T17:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/?p=2322"},"modified":"2018-01-06T17:46:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T17:46:13","slug":"the-resonance-of-the-cello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/the-resonance-of-the-cello\/","title":{"rendered":"The resonance of the Cello"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sound of the Cello is very familiar with its deep tones and haunting sound, perfect for classical corporate events and private parties<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Not only is the cello a small version of the violone, but a violone is also a large type of viola. Hence \u2018little big viola\u2019. We admit they could have just gone with \u2018small violone\u2019 but where\u2019s the fun in that? With the \u2018violoncello\u2019 all too often truncated down to \u2018cello\u2019 in modern times, the name of the instrument often had an apostrophe sitting in front of the \u2018c\u2019. This abbreviation has fallen by the wayside in recent years \u2013 much like the Waterstones apostrophe \u2013 and as such, we\u2019re left with the cello being called the cello!<\/p>\n

The cello is a relatively large instrument \u2013 one might even think of it as a massive violin \u2013 but did you know that the cello isn\u2019t even its full name? The word \u2018cello\u2019 is merely an abbreviation of the word \u2018violoncello\u2019. If you don\u2019t speak Italian then at a stretch, you might think the name means \u2018violin cello\u2019 but you\u2019d be wrong.<\/p>\n

When translated literally, it means \u2018little big viola\u2019. Confused? You see, the cello (or maybe we should call it a violoncello to be true to its full name?) is in fact a small version of another instrument, which is known as a violone. If you\u2019ve never heard one of those then you\u2019re not alone; only a few players around the world specialise in this instrument and the closest you\u2019re going to get hear one in an ordinary setting is by listening to a double bass (which combines features of both the viol and the violin families).<\/p>\n

So although you might think The Massive Violins have a hilarious name it\u2019s actually rooted in history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sound of the Cello is very familiar with its deep tones and haunting sound, perfect for classical corporate events and private parties. Not only is the cello a small version of the violone, but a violone is also a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,543,254],"tags":[245,476,779,15,502,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2323,"href":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions\/2323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redmasque.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}