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Bass violin. A woodcut of an early bass violin ("Bas-Geig de bracio") from Michael Praetorius ' Syntagma musicum, 1619. This instrument is somewhat unusual in that it had five strings. Bass violin is the modern term for various 16th- and 17th-century bass instruments of the violin (i.e. viola da braccio) family.
A bass instrument (/ beɪs /) is a musical instrument that produces tones in the low-pitched range C 2 –C 4. [1] Basses belong to different families of instruments and can cover a wide range of musical roles. Since producing low pitches usually requires a long air column or string, the string and wind bass instruments are usually the largest ...
Arpeggione (Austrian) Banhu (China) Baryton (Austrian) Bazantar (United States) Bowed dulcimer (German) Bowed guitar (London) Bowed psaltery (United States) Byzaanchy (Tuva) Byzantine lyra (Greece)
The double bass (/ ˈdʌbəlbeɪs /), 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 ] Similar in structure to the cello, it has four or five strings.
Balalaika. The balalaika (Russian: балала́йка, pronounced [bəɫɐˈɫajkə]) is a Russian stringed musical instrument with a characteristic triangular wooden, hollow body, fretted neck, and three strings. Two strings are usually tuned to the same note and the third string is a perfect fourth higher. The higher-pitched balalaikas are ...
The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (/ beɪs /) is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and scale length. The bass guitar most commonly has four strings, though five- and six-stringed models are ...
e. In musical instrument classification, string instruments, or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner. Musicians play some string instruments, like guitars, by plucking the strings with their fingers or a plectrum (pick), and others by hitting ...
The H8 was based around a regular four stringed Hagström bass but all strings were doubled much like a 12 string guitar. The lighter string was placed above the standard string and tuned one octave higher than usual. This gave the H8 a unique tone which was very suitable for bass solos. In Hagström brochures the manufacturer also recommended ...