users of such an electric viola and he has used them both for melodies in his solo work and for drones in his work with The Velvet Underground (e.g. "Venus in Furs"). Other notable players of the electric viola are Geoffrey Richardson of Caravan and Mary Ramsey of 10,000 Maniacs. Instruments may be built with an internal preamplifier, or may put out an unbuffered transducer signal. While such signals may be fed directly to an amplifier or mixing board, they often benefit from an external preamp/equalizer on the end of a short cable, before being fed to the sound system. In rock and other loud styles, the electric viola player may use effects units such as reverb or overdrive. See also List of violists Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition Maurice Vieux International Viola Competition Garrod's pad Viola jokes Notes References Further reading Dalton, David. "The Viola & Violists." Primrose International Viola Archive. Retrieved October 8, 2006 Chapman, Eric. "Joseph Curtin and the Evia". Journal of the American Viola Society, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring 2004, pp. 41–42. Tertis, Lionel. My Viola and I. Kahn & Averill, London (1991) External links American Viola Society website Primrose International Viola Archive library website International Viola Society website Rivinus- David Rivinus' site with pictures of his oddly shaped violas "Evia" 1999 prototype, Joseph Curtin's experimental viola model Oliver Viola History of the Viola Milward Violas – David Milward's site. Contemporary viola design and build, information and articles Viola in music – The role of viola in music. Information, description of works, videos, free sheet music, MIDI files, RSS update Anechoic Recordings of Viola Tones – University of Iowa Electronic Music Studios Dr. Lindsay Aitkenhead's folk viola research page Nigel Keay's Contemporary Viola, scores and articles of recent repertoire for the viola. Very brief, but it does have names for the viola in French, German and Italian. C instruments Folk music instruments String section Baroque instruments