The viol family also comprises instruments in a multitude of sizes.

This is a 6-string member of the viol family, most often tuned in D.

In contrast, large members of the viol family were much more common, and used from earliest times, playing their lines at 8' pitch.

Actual Duiffopruggar instruments are rare and tend to be of the viol family.

Variants on the standard four members of the viol family include:

The viola d'amore shares many features of the viol family.

It is like a double bass, but it belongs to the viol family.

The violone was the last member of the viol family to die out.

The pardessus de viole is the smallest of the viol family.

The double bass also has influences from the viol family.