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double-bass

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Adj.1.double-bass - pitched an octave below normal bass instrumental or vocal range; "contrabass or double-bass clarinet"
contrabass
low-pitched, low - used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency
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But the little chap seized him at once by the nose; gave it a swing and a pull; clapped the big chapeau de-bras upon his head; knocked it down over his eyes and mouth; and then, lifting up the big fiddle, beat him with it so long and so soundly, that what with the belfry-man being so fat, and the fiddle being so hollow, you would have sworn that there was a regiment of double-bass drummers all beating the devil's tattoo up in the belfry of the steeple of Vondervotteimittiss.
The Devil in the Belfry by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
It increased my sufferings greatly to see the pats she gave him for punishment on the bridge of his blunt nose, while he winked his eyes, and licked her hand, and still growled within himself like a little double-bass.
David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context
 
 
 
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