If you and don't like carrying heavy thing around,
then the bass is not the instrument for you. The double bass, a larger version of the
bass, is the largest instrument in the string family, measuring up to 6 feet high! The
bass has four strings. The contrabass is another word for the double bass.
Modern basses have four strings, but in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, the basses
had three strings. Some three-stringed basses are still used in Eastern European folk
music. Bass players now-a-days would probably use an out-curved bow. The in-curved bows
were used in the nineteenth century. The bass has a low pitched sound and differentiates
greatly in sound from the other orchestra instruments.
heavy thing around,
then the bass is not the instrument for you. The double bass, a larger version of the
bass, is the largest instrument in the string family, measuring up to 6 feet high! The
bass has four strings. The contrabass is another word for the double bass.
Modern basses have four strings, but in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, the basses
had three strings. Some three-stringed basses are still used in Eastern European folk
music. Bass players now-a-days would probably use an out-curved bow. The in-curved bows
were used in the nineteenth century. The bass has a low pitched sound and differentiates
greatly in sound from the other orchestra instruments.
