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double bass
noun
: the largest and lowest-pitched of the stringed instruments that is tuned in fourths
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Closely related to the European double bass, the tololoche is smaller in size.
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Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
Born in 1938, Flowers became a musician in the Royal Air Force during the 1950s, playing tuba and taking up double bass as a secondary instrument.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 8 Sep. 2024
Rocker, who played cello as a child before switching to double bass, had a few brushes with Bernstein in his youth.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 Aug. 2024
Sebastián Yatra scholarship goes to … The Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation awarded the Sebastián Yatra Scholarship, or Prodigy Scholarship, to Cuban double bass player Leo Luna Roblejo during a ceremony in Miami on Aug. 7.
—Griselda Flores, Billboard, 10 Aug. 2024
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Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
Born in 1938, Flowers became a musician in the Royal Air Force during the 1950s, playing tuba and taking up double bass as a secondary instrument.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 8 Sep. 2024
Rocker, who played cello as a child before switching to double bass, had a few brushes with Bernstein in his youth.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 Aug. 2024
Sebastián Yatra scholarship goes to … The Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation awarded the Sebastián Yatra Scholarship, or Prodigy Scholarship, to Cuban double bass player Leo Luna Roblejo during a ceremony in Miami on Aug. 7.
—Griselda Flores, Billboard, 10 Aug. 2024
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“Double bass.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/double%20bass. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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