The double bass or simply the bass (and numerous other names) is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra. It is a transposing instrument and is ...

The double bass is the biggest of the string family of instruments - usually weighing nearly 30 kilograms (66 pounds) and with a height taller than most grown men. But whenever there’s an opportunity ...

We asked the legendary double bassist and composer Edgar Meyer the internet's most-searched questions about the double bass. Hello I am double bassist and composer Edgar Meyer and I'm being told that ...

It is hard to imagine the double bass — the lowest-pitched member of the violin family that resembles a string instrument on steroids — setting the tone for the Sufi song ‘Dama dam mast kalandar’, but ...

TIJUANATIJUANA — Andrés Martín, a double bass player with the Baja California Orchestra, always wished that music would take him places. That dream is about to become a reality — literally. The Buenos ...

A double bass has been rendered unplayable, after suffering ‘irrecoverable damage’ on a Turkish Airlines flight. Double bass player Tihomir Hojsak has shared his frustrations online, after his ...

ATLANTA — When Jane Little first saw the double bass in her teens, she was horrified. "I thought now why would any girl want to play that big thing," she said. But the double bass is the instrument ...

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Acclaimed double bassist Gary Karr is 77 years old, but his nearly life-long love affair with the musical instrument is as strong as ever. “I think I’m sexually attracted to it,” Karr said during a ...