The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word VIOL
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More clues leading to the result VIOL
- Sextet look round for something from the past to play
- Awful-sounding instrument
- One was bowed, showing only half of injury
- Instrument that has an appalling sound
- Instrument that has appalling sound
- Six look back on a big fiddle
- One of the old strings taken from a cello I’ve picked up
- 15 Instrument to primarily view moon at the start of lunar eclipse
- Instrument to measure oil composition
- Musical instrument made by six old characters after losing a string
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What does VIOL mean?
VIOL noun- A stringed instrument related to the violin family, but held in the lap between the legs like a cello, usually with C-holes, a flat back, a fretted neck and six strings, played with an underhanded bow hold.
- To play the viol.