Definition of "celli"
celli
noun
Quotations
The balance of strings in these two orchestras emphasized the lowest tessitura; Charles Burney criticized the Italians for having more double basses than celli and for playing the instrument "... so coarsely that it produced a sound no more musical than the stroke of a hammer."
1988, Elliott W. Galkin, A history of orchestral conducting: in theory and practice, page 38