Where did the double bass of today come from? Cecelia Bruggemeyer, a long-time double bass player with the OAE, introduces its baroque ancestor.
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Violone: literally ‘big viol’ ; a general term used to refer to baroque bass instruments of various sizes and tunings
Bass:
1. a general word for a non-specified bass instrument or bass line
2. shorthand for double bass
Double-bass (Eng.), Contrebasse (Fr.): a bass stringed instrument that sounds an octave lower than the written pitch
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