Note 55 — The Art of Violoncello Playing In the Eighteenth Century.
Isobella S. E. Stigand translation
Michael Corrette in the preface to his Violoncello Tutor refers to a stringed instrument in general use before the introduction of the violoncello into France with the tuning B, F, C, G, which he calls Basse de Violon. The instrument must be identical with the one described by Mattheson as Basse de Violon.