DescriptionViola or vihuela from the Zwiefalten Passionale.jpg
English: Instrument (right) that in the Iberian Peninsula would be called Viola or vihuela; instrument (left) is a panpipe; from the Zwiefalten Passionale.
The word viola has been reused across the years in different languages for different instruments. In the medieval Iberian Peninsula, it was a small figure-8 shaped lute, related distantly to later instruments such as the ukulele and hatchet and Portuguese violas.
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Instrument (right) that in the Iberian Peninsula would be called Viola or vihuela; instrument (left) is a panpipe; from the Zwiefalten Passionale.