Cello, a western musical instrument, is an indispensable tenor or bass stringed instrument in an orchestra, belonging to the lower tenor instrument in the violin family. Cello is rich and full of timbre, cheerful, good at playing lyrical melodies and expressing profound and complicated feelings. It is also called "Miss Music" because it shares the bass part of harmony with the double bass.

Cello, like other members of the violin or stringed instrument family, has four strings with a range of about four octaves, and the pitch is eight octaves lower than that of Viola (C-G-D-A). Music score is usually based on bass spectrum, sometimes using midrange spectrum in higher range, and sometimes using treble spectrum.

The first A string of cello is gorgeous and powerful, full of singing, the second D string is hazy, and the third and fourth strings (G, C) are deep and loud, which can bear the very heavy sound of the band. Although its pronunciation principle is the same as that of Chinese and violin, its finger position is very different from that of violin in bass, especially in treble.

As for the playing skills, the cello and violin are different in terms of the size of the piano body, the arrangement of strings and the length of strings, so their playing methods are different from those of China and violin, and they are all played between their legs. When playing, the player gently clamps the piano body between his knees, and the bottom is supported by a metal bar with adjustable height. The way of playing is to pull the string with bow hair, pluck the string with fingers, and tap the string with bow rod.

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The history of cello can be traced back to the end of 16, and it first appeared in about 1660. This is a musical instrument called "Viola degamba" or "Viola de Gamba", which evolved from15th century. The violin is not as big as the cello, and its radian is not so obvious, but it can be sandwiched between your knees and played with a bow like a cello.

Since domenico Gabrielli, a cellist in the17th century, many composers have created music specially for cello, such as Vivaldi, tartini and Leo in the18th century, and created many cello concertos by imitating violin concertos.

Later, Italian cello concertos and other music appeared in Britain, Austria and France. As for the classical and romantic composers in 18 and 19 centuries, such as Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, dvorak and Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, they also created a large number of cello solos, concertos and chamber music with cello parts, which gave full play to the performance and skills of this instrument. Among them, Bach played six cello suites, Cerini concerto and six sonatas accompanied by Kubinashi most frequently.

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