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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... A musician who plays the double bass, also known as the upright bass, string bass or stand-up bass.
The double bass (/ ˈ d ʌ b əl b eɪ s /), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, the bull fiddle, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched chordophone [1] in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions such as the octobass). [2]
Bowed string instruments, include the double bass, the cello and the violone. The double bass is usually the instrument referred to as a "bass" in European classical music and jazz, sometimes called a "string bass" to differentiate it from a "brass bass" or "bass horn", or an "upright bass" to differentiate it from a "bass guitar". [3]
Bass, electric bass, 6-string bass, contrabass guitar Essentially a 4-string bass with either added high and low strings. Guitar, bass (8-string) 8 strings 4 courses. E 2 E 1 •A 2 A 1 •D 3 D 2 •G 3 G 2: Eight-string bass guitar, 8-string bass US Essentially a 4-string bass with each string doubled at the upper octave. Guitar, bass (12 ...
The first "King Mortone" double bass appeared in 1934, when H. N. White decided to make a string bass instrument with the same care and attention as was put into making a brass bass instrument. The string bass's fronts were made from the finest straight-grain spruce with very close grain quality, while the rest of the instrument was made of ...
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 octobass is an extremely large and rare bowed string instrument first built around 1850 in Paris by the French luthier Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (1798–1875). It has three strings and is essentially a larger version of the double bass – the specimen in the collection of the Musée de la Musique in Paris measures 3.48 metres (11 ft 5 in) in length, whereas a full-size double bass is ...