Now, as a patriotic Englishman he loved Huns to be slain, but as the survivor of James Marmaduke Trevor, dilettante expert on the theorbo and the viol da Gamba and owner of the peacock and ivory room in Denby Hall, to say nothing of the collector of little china dogs, he could not honestly declare that he enjoyed the various processes of slaying them.
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke
More, he was a performer himself, and played the baryton, a stringed instrument not unlike the viola-da-Gamba, in general use up to the end of the eighteenth century.
"Haydn"
J. Cuthbert Hadden
Previous to her there was one Signora Leonora Baroni, born at Mantua about 1610, but she played the theorbo and the viol di Gamba.
"Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday"
Henry C. Lahee