Talk:Viola da braccio (instrument)

Viola da braccio must redirect to Violin family
Would "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lira_da_braccio" be a better redirect?


 * No it would not! Viola da braccio is an early term for the instruments of the violin family whether played a braccio or a gamba Contact Basemetal   here  10:42, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Stop making silly redirects to this page!
Two ignorant (in both cases anonymous) editors to date have changed the original redirect and have redirected this page to Viol or to Lira da braccio. Stop meddling in things if you don't know what you're talking about. The original redirect when this redirect page was created was the correct one and that's to the Violin family. For something like 15 months now, since January 2012, a reader looking for information on Viola da braccio has been taken to the irrelevant page Lira da braccio. And before that, for 5 months in 2008 a reader would be taken to the Viol page which is even more exactly wrong, as the da braccio is used precisely to distinguish these instruments from the viols or viola da gamba family. Please stop. Viola da braccio is the early name of the instruments of the violin family (whether played a braccio, like the violin or the viola, or a gamba, like the cello, incidentally). Contact Basemetal   here  10:48, 10 May 2013 (UTC)