"violoncello" meaning in English

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          "text": "A tentative violoncello is playing, invisible and plaintive, then stops with an asthmatic scrape of catgut.",
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          "text": "Preserved under the rock-hard amber varnish was a beautifully crafted mythological scene depicting a nude man in a lush landscape playing a violoncello to a rapt audience of peaceful animals, including a jaguar, lion, swan, fox, peacock, horse, parrot, dogs, badger, deer, bull, ostrich, and no less than an elephant coming over the hill to join them.",
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