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Contrabass (from Italian: contrabbasso) refers to several musical instruments of very low pitch—generally one octave below bass register instruments. While the term most commonly refers to the double bass (which is the bass instrument in the orchestral string family, tuned lower than the cello), many other instruments in the contrabass register exist.
The names contrabass and double bass refer (respectively) to the instrument's range, and to its use one octave lower than the cello (i.e. the cello part was the main bass line, and the "double bass" originally played a copy of the cello part; only later was it given an independent part).
The contrabassoon is a very deep-sounding woodwind instrument that plays in the same sub-bass register as the tuba, double bass, or contrabass clarinet.It has a sounding range beginning at B ♭ 0 (or A 0, on some instruments) and extending up over three octaves to D 4, though the highest fourth is rarely scored for.
Basso profondo (Italian: [ˈbasso proˈfondo], "deep bass"), sometimes basso profundo or contrabass, is the lowest bass voice type.. While The New Grove Dictionary of Opera defines a typical bass as having a range that extends downward to the second E below middle C (E 2), [1] operatic bassi profondi can be called on to sing low C (C 2), as in the role of Baron Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier.
Contrabass guitars from the 1970s are often tuned B 0 –E 1 –A 1 –D 2 –G 2 –C 3 (B 0 being the lowest B on a standard 88-key piano). Some players prefer B 0 –E 1 –A 1 –D 2 –F ♯ 2 –B 2 , which preserves the intervals of a standard guitar tuning (lowered by a twelfth) and makes the top and bottom notes the same pitch.
Category includes contrabass and sub-contrabass range instruments. ... Bass guitars (3 C, 20 P) D. Double basses (2 C, 11 P) Pages in category "Contrabass instruments"
Daniel Dorff: In A Deep Funk dance set for bass clarinet (or contrabass or contralto) [11] Anders Eliasson Concerto for Bass Clarinet and Orchestra (1996) Michael Finnissy – Tussen Rede en Gevoel (2018) [12] 2 x bass clarinet, cello, double bass; James Gardner: Rendering for solo bass clarinet
The contrabass trombone (German: Kontrabassposaune, Italian: trombone contrabbasso) is the lowest-pitched instrument in the trombone family of brass instruments.While modern instruments are pitched in 12 ft (12 ′) F with a single slide, the first practical contrabass trombones appeared in the mid-19th century built in 18 ′ B♭ an octave below the tenor trombone with a double slide.