Talk:Viola profonda

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The idea of a tenor-range string instrument is relevant and notable as you can appreciate at:

So it achieves to be categorized in the categories music theory and it's verified existence <ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsH-TRYAnps ]</ref> in bowed string instruments. Neither is the reader of the article being guided to buy anything nor does the article aim to sell the described object; so it's not spam. Moreover it was also already accepted in other-languages Wikipedia-pages.

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Why should Viola Profonda not be notable? Just because it has not as many hits as Air Jordan yet when locking for it in a search engine?

Brgds (Pro.tone (talk) 19:11, 25 October 2009 (UTC))[reply]

The viola is the tenor voice in the violin family. The setup (like viols) started as a three voice (rather than four) which was common to the Renaissance style. Like a viol consort (and recorders at the time), violins were usually played ATTB or AATB (which as been preserved in the modern Vln I, Vln II, Viola, Cello quartet). There is a soprano violin, but it was never widely used. The viola profonda seeks to fill a gap that does not exist. Jmclark (talk) 10:52, 9 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The viola has (by now) being used as the tenor voice within the violin family, but it does not fullfill the complete tenor range; the viola profonda does. As one knowns the violins' tuning is one fifth above the the viola. The viola profondas' pitch is one fifth above the Cello and exactly one octave below the violin, so it fullfills the gap which existed. (Pro.tone —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.7.56.20 (talk) 09:42, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This article should be merge with tenor violin

This article and the article violotta should be merged with tenor violin, with suitable redirects. Contact Basemetal here 21:21, 12 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

<irony> Of course, and the article I Phone 4 and I Phone 5 should be merged with Smartphone </irony off>. No, the articles shouldn't be merged.

Since may nobody seems to be interested in merging the articles; so please close this talk. 217.7.56.111 (talk) 02:28, 4 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Support merge. There's nothing new about this instrument; the idea of an instrument of this construction and tuning has been around since at least the 19th century. See violotta. This article was created to believe some hype, not as an independently notable concept. oknazevad (talk) 13:21, 15 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Of course it must murge, not a single fact explane with Profundo would be anything esle but a tenor violin.--Lembeye (talk) 14:47, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]