Historical clue formulations

• Baroque instrument — 2026-05-28
• Baroque stringed instrument — 2025-08-22
• Six-stringed instrument similar to a cello — 2025-08-06
• Instrument that's a homophone of 69-Down — 2021-10-24
• One of a family of stringed instruments — 2021-03-09
• Popular Renaissance instrument — 2019-10-24
• Six-stringed instrument — 2019-07-11
• Relative of a cello — 2019-04-22
• Alto clef instrument — 2017-01-27
• Baroque stringed instrument — 2016-05-24
• Ancestor of a cello — 2016-03-31
• Instrument in Vermeer's "The Music Lesson" — 2014-12-28
• Instrument played with a bow — 2013-03-19
• Its players bow — 2008-06-07
• Fretted fiddle — 2008-01-16
• Fretted instrument — 2005-09-18
• Six-stringed instrument — 2005-08-29
• Old fiddle — 2005-03-30
• Instrument played with a bow — 2002-06-06
• Six-stringed instrument — 2002-03-27
• Six-string — 2002-02-03
• Bass ___ — 2001-11-17
• Its players take a bow — 2000-05-13
• It has a low-arched bridge — 1999-02-13
• It takes a bow at a recital — 1997-10-16
• Bass___ — 1996-02-28
• Six-string — 1996-02-25
• Early stringed instrument — 1995-05-21
• Bass _____ — 1994-03-10
• Fat fiddle — 1993-11-22