Range A cello can play from a low C, two octaves below middle C, known as C2, up to a high A, two octaves above its highest string. Each of the four strings is tuned a fifth apart, making up the notes ...

Selaocoe wasn’t allowed to take his instrument home, so during the week he “practised” on four lines drawn on paper to represent the cello strings. “By the time we got to Saturday ...