double bass in English

noun
1
the largest and lowest-pitched instrument of the violin family, providing the bass line of the orchestral string section and also much used in jazz.
Among the strings, there are twelve violins, two violas, four cellos, and two double basses .

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1. (music) The double bass, or contraBasso.

2. The musicians play the violin, accordion, cimbalom - guitar, double-bass - bass balalaika.

3. 8 Many jazz trios consist of a piano, guitar and double bass.

4. Emily is drinking an Athol On Double Bass by Double-Barrelled Brewery at Double-Barrelled Brewery.

5. Direct-drive Double Bass Drum Pedal with Longboard Footboards and 3-way Beaters - Green and Black $1,149.99

6. The characteristic rhythm and feel of the Boogie was then adapted to guitar, double bass, and other instruments

7. The song is arranged as a semi-classical minuet, built on two acoustic guitars and a double bass.

8. The characteristic rhythm and feel of the Boogie was then adapted to guitar, double bass, and other instruments

9. What does Bassist mean? A musician who plays a bass instrument, especially a double bass or bass guitar

10. At it's heart, Ballades is a solo piano album - something Jamal has never done before (double-bass player James Cammack is featured on three tracks)

11. Typically a Bluegrass band consists of four to seven performers who sing while accompanying themselves on acoustic string instruments such as the guitar, double bass, fiddle, five-string banjo, mandolin, steel guitar, and Dobro.

12. Cello is a shortened form of the Italian word violonCello, which means ‘small large violin.’ The Cello is said to be the second-largest bowed string instrument in the world after the double bass

13. Kate Bush in the Babooshka video The video featured Bush beside a double bass symbolising the husband, wearing a black bodysuit and a veil in her role as the embittered wife, then changing into an

14. The double bass is occasionally taken to be part of the viol family, due to its sloping shoulders, its tuning, the practice of some basses being made with more than four strings and its sometimes flat back.

15. The main cause is a type-I hypersensitivity reaction to products containing Abietic acid, such as the rosin/colophony, which is commonly used as a friction-increasing agent.Players of bowed string instruments (violin, viola, cello, double bass) rub cakes or blocks of rosin on their bow so it can grip the strings

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17. Matthew Siveter and Stephen Godward are Double Bass and will present ‘A Tale of Cock and Bull’ ‘If you want to know who we are’; they are two ‘imperfect Ablutioners’ who will take an often humorous swipe at the world in ‘solo or duet’ and in ‘song and story’ – ‘ballads, songs and snatches’ but not a dreamy lullaby in sight!