Leonardo's 'viola organista' debuts

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In his famous backward-written journals, Leonardo described a "viola organista" — an instrument that's a cross between a harpsichord and a viola da gamba. More than 500 years later, Polish pianist and instrument-maker Slawomir Zubrzycki has built one.

You can read more about it — and hear a video in which Zubrzycki plays it — here.

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