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double bass    Audio Help   [beys] Pronunciation Key
–noun
the largest instrument of the violin family, having three or, usually, four strings, rested vertically on the floor when played.
Also called bass fiddle, bass viol, contrabass, string bass.

[Origin: 1720–30]

—Related forms
double bassist.
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double bass    Audio Help   (bās)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   The largest bowed stringed instrument in the modern orchestra, also used frequently in jazz ensembles, especially played pizzicato. The double bass, usually considered a member of the violin family, is tuned in fourths and has the sloping shoulders and flat back characteristic of the viols. It has a deep range, going as low as three octaves below middle C. Also called bass fiddle, bass viol, bull fiddle, contrabass, string bass.


[double, tuned an octave lower than (from the fact that a string or pipe that is twice the length of another gies a pitch an octave lower) + bass2.]

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double bass

noun
largest and lowest member of the violin family [syn: bass fiddle] 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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double bass [beis]
a type of large stringed instrument, the largest and deepest in sound of the violin family
Arabic: أكْبَر آله وَتَرِيَّه تُشْبِه الكَمان
Chinese (Simplified): 低音提琴
Chinese (Traditional): 低音提琴
Czech: kontrabas
Danish: kontrabas
Dutch: contrabas
Estonian: kontrabass
Finnish: kontrabasso
French: contrebasse
German: der Kontrabaß
Greek: κοντραμπάσο
Hungarian: nagybőgő
Icelandic: kontrabassi
Indonesian: kontrabas
Italian: contrabbasso
Japanese: ダブルベース
Korean: 더블 베이스
Latvian: kontrabass
Lithuanian: kontrabosas
Norwegian: kontrabass
Polish: kontrabas
Portuguese (Brazil): contrabaixo
Portuguese (Portugal): contrabaixo
Romanian: contrabas
Russian: контрабас
Slovak: kontrabas
Slovenian: kontrabas
Spanish: contrabajo
Swedish: kontrabas
Turkish: kontrbas
See also: at the double, double, double agent, double back, double figures, double up, double-check, doubles, double-bedded, double-cross, double-dealing, double-decker, double-Dutch, double-quick, see double

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