Double Bass

The largest bowed stringed instrument in the modern orchestra,. The double bass, usually considered a member of the violin family, is tuned in fourths and has the sloping shoulders and flat back characteristic of the viols. It has a deep range, going as low as three octaves below middle C

Keywords

musical instruments, bass fiddle, bass viol, bull fiddle, contrabass, string bass, Stings

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Stringed Musical Instruments

Source

Albert Lavignac, Music and Musicians (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1906) 141

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