Range A cello can play from a low C, two octaves below middle C, known as C2, up to a high A, two octaves above its highest string. Each of the four strings is tuned a fifth apart, making up the notes ...

WAJIMA, Ishikawa Prefecture--The melodic tones of a lacquered violin and cello that survived the New ... of varnish on violins when he saw people playing the stringed instruments on the streets ...