The double bass is the biggest and deepest of the bowed string instruments. Play the double bass.
It is played standing or on a high stool, and moving one is a job for a car with the seats down. The double bass is the only orchestral string instrument tuned in fourths rather than fifths.
1noundouble bassThe biggest and deepest of the bowed string instruments.
“The double bass held the whole band together.”
double bass is an instrument.
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