7.Any of a family of stringed instruments, chiefly of the16th and17th centuries, having a fretted fingerboard, usually six strings, and a flat back and played with a curved bow.
8.a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch.
9.A stringed instrument having a body shaped like a pear sliced lengthwise and a neck with a fretted fingerboard that is usually bent just below the tuning pegs.