double-bass

How To Use double-bass In A Sentence

• It consists of a bass line only, which is to be played on instruments such as the cello, viola de gamba, double-bass or bassoon.
• Fry's music is replete with opportunities for first-chair musicians, even down to the double-bassist, to show their wares, and the Scottish musicians respond without condescension.
• The _bass tuba_ is a member of the saxhorn family [42] and supplies the lowest part of the brass choir, as the double-bass does in the string choir. Music Notation and Terminology
• The bows of the cellos, violins and double-basses seem to caress your heart strings and not those of their instruments.
• There are no cellos, a disproportionately large number of double-basses, and big brass and wind sections but no oboes and bassoons.
• It is made of brass and exists in several sizes, the only one ever used in the orchestra being the double-bass _sarrusophone_, which has approximately the same range as the double-bassoon and is sometimes (but rarely) made use of in the orchestra instead of the latter instrument. Music Notation and Terminology
• contrabass or double-bass clarinet
• As for the drummer, suffice it to say he took it to another level with a much bigger kit, flying around the tom-toms and engaging in fierce double-bass song finales.
• ‘The music is mostly traditional jazz, Dixieland and mainstream jazz,’ said Mr Frank, a double-bass player who took to the stage himself with his Dixieland All Stars.
• This instrument, designed by Shankar and built by Ken Parker, covers the entire orchestral range, including double-bass, cello, viola and violin.