Viola da gamba Tutorial No. 19: Wolf notes

Suffering from booming notes on your viol? In this episode, I go through some simple fixes that don't require clamping big metallic things to your instrument!

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[AbPanormo]

Thanks for this advice. I’ve done this for years as a cellist (though I’ve found a wolf eliminator does the trick without a loss of timbre, at least on my instruments), but will try it on viol. One other thing that works—at least on cello—is to squeeze the sides of the instrument between the calves.

[arnoreichert]

Wouldn't it make sense to " glue" somehow a pitchfork tuned to the wolf note onto the viol?