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double bass  (bs)

n.

The largest bowed stringed instrument in the modern orchestra, also used frequently in jazz ensembles, especially played pizzicato. 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. Also called bass fiddle, bass viol, bull fiddle, contrabass, string bass.

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[double, tuned an octave lower than (from the fact that a string or pipe that is twice the length of another gies a pitch an octave lower) + bass.]

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double bass

Noun

a stringed instrument, the largest and lowest member of the violin family

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

double bass - largest and lowest member of the violin family bass fiddle, bull fiddle, contrabass, string bass, bass viol bass - the member with the lowest range of a family of musical instruments bowed stringed instrument, string - stringed instruments that are played with a bow; "the strings played superlatively well"

Translations

double bass n → contrabajo

double bass double n → contrebasse f

double bass double n → Kontrabass m

double bass n → contrabbasso